A quote: “Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.” ~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’ll start with a story …

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It was a tiny, tidy little house and had been in the old woman’s family for 4 generations.

Summers she spent on her porch, a pitcher of cold lemonade for any drop by visitor, sewing in her lap – handmade doll clothes for the neighborhood girls who stopped by and admired.

Content, she stayed the same. Her neighborhood did not. The hand she waved now brought snarls. Little girls were pushed fast past her home by green-eyed mothers.

They came one night, through the door, dragging her to the street. A whole house for one woman, they cried, how dare you?

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Now, it’s your turn.
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