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Awww @avant-garde . Not quite yet.

My youngest niece just 'graduated' from Kinder. She wants to be an 'Inventor' when she grows up... so maybe I'll ask her to invent one and we can both use it?

@tyme

Did you get her a kinder surprise?

When we were overseas, I got her two kinder surprises, but not for her graduation.. she was actually so so so sick on her 'graduation'. I didn't think she'd make it. She held it and when she came home, she just cried and cried... then vomited and vomited lol @avant-garde

So yeah.. a graduation to remember.

@tyme

You would probably like the book I'm listening to

Hope Beyond the Waves by Heidi Chiavaroli

It tells the story of a girl named Atta and the leper colony she gets sent to when she was 19 and had contracted leprosy somehow in 1916.

Her younger sister Gertie gets left behind with their abusive dad.

In tells the story in parallel with Gertie's story in 1993 when her granddaughter comes to live with her due to her being pregnant and her dad on the campaign trail.

Two stigmatised outsiders.

I'm about half way through

No, I don' tknow that one, but it sounds so interesting @avant-garde I'll add it to my list.

Believe it or not, guess what I'm doing this evening and have been doing for a while? I've going through every SINGLE one of your posts in this thread from the very start. I'm on page 67 at the moment...

Enjoy your book.

@tyme

It mentions old hymns like "his eyes are on the sparrow" and "loving Shepherd of thy sheep"

Is there any particular reason you're reading every post?

Cool @avant-garde ! I love those hymns!

I'm looking for a particular post that I want to re-read and as I re-read the thread, I can see your 'journey' up until this day.

I do this from time to time on different threads including my own from when I first signed up to the forums many years ago.

@tyme

I look over my old poetry from time to time for the same reason, I like seeing how far I've come and how different I am

It's interesting to see people's journey @avant-garde . You might need to write your own book! You've got so much to share. It may not feel like it, but when I read even just this thread, it is amazing to see that even though you've experienced so much hurt, you continue to go to church, you continue to push on, you continue to reward yourself with kinder surprises and happy meals. It's pretty amazing.

I'm heading off very soon. Please take care and if I see you tomorrow, I'll be on in the late afternoon.

@tyme

Chapter 30 - "Christ touched the untouchable when he touched our sin"