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When he was an old man
he wanted to speak to a friend
about certain people whose offenses
he had never forgiven.
He had been the unwanted child,
so he had been told,
of an elderly father and a young mother.
He had been born into a home
that was exceedingly religious
in a narrow strict and hard way.
It was a home
in which there was more law than gospel,
certainly more law than love.
As the little boy grew up,
the influence of his father faded away.
And he was brought up
by his young mother and an uncle.