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A Brand New Start

Coach's Note:

Sometimes we just don't get a fresh start at life. Children are used and abused far too often. In Basic Progress, this person found the necessary courage and strength to forgive a horrendous crime perpetrated over a five year period prior to becoming a teenager. Sometimes, we judge without any information. We are not always responsible for what we were, but we can now be accountable for what we become. The long term healing for this individual will transcend generations. This individual has become a 'transition generation', whereby this form of evil stops now and forever.

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Uncle, Grandfather and Cousin,

I forgive you. You stole my childhood from under me. I grew up too fast, grew up fearing every moment I laid down to sleep. As an adult I now have to relearn how to get true rest. Maybe someone else sexually abused you too and you did not forgive them. I forgive you for the hurt, confusion and guilt you gave me to carry as burdens through out my life. What you did weighted me down heavily and of that I am now letting go. I am forgiving you for not letting me really know what a first time with someone I loved as an adult was really like. I forgive you for continuing this vicious cycle from what was supposed to be my protective time of youth. This went on periodically from the time I was 6 until I was 10 and only until you thought I was old enough to tell on you. I kept my silence. I never told my parents until I was 25. I struggled with putting you in jail growing up but figured no one would believe me. I forgive you for this deep pain I will no longer bear. I am just sorry you have to carry the burden and guilt of knowing you took a child's innocence every night you try to sleep. But even still I forgive you even if you didn't forgive those who did it to you.