In a message dated 5/7/01 9:58:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I don't think having/being is important. She's merely taking two
words and turning the connotations we ascribe to them around. We
think of benefactors as positive things but Joni describes them as
having 'perils' whereas parasites usually bring to mind ugly images
and Joni says they are (or can be) blessings. Nothing is completely
black or white. There are at least two sides to everything in Joni's
mind.
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One of the problems of this world, is too many people want to over simplify
life, deny the complexity and ambiguity of everyone and everything. There at
least 10 sides to every person and every story.