I believe that we are all just somewhere on the continuum of health and dysfunction. Over the past 5 years I have read two books that illustrate that point very well. I read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Nelson Mandela's autobiography. The Glass Castle is about a girl who grew up as a street person. Her parents and her family were squatters in abandoned homes and railway buildings and her father was an alcoholic. So clearly there were issues of dysfunction there. Yet at one point in the book, the Dad takes his daughter, on her birthday, out into the night. He asks her to look up into the sky and "pick a star.....any star". He tells her, "That is my gift for you. Whenever you look up at that star, I want you to think about how much I love you." Now I think that's a really loving and healthy thing to do when you have no money....don't you?
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