Petting, Scratching, And Cuddling A Dog Could

...i Felt Fear Enter The Halls Of My Mind, But I Didn't Give It The Keys To Every Room.

Strangely Enough, For Many Many Years I Didn't Talk About My Childhood And Then When I Did I Got A Ton Of Mail - Literally Within A Year I Got A Couple Of Thousand Letters From People Who'd Had A Worse Childhood, A Similar Childhood, A Less-bad Childhood, And The Question That Was Most Often Posed To Me In Those Letters Was: How Did You Get Past The Trauma Of Being Raised By A Violent Alcoholic?

That's All That Matters, Really: That We Can Make Each Other Feel Better.

If You Have To Pay The Bills, And You Write Something You're Not Proud Of, Use A Pen-name For That.

Never Leave A Friend Behind. Friends Are All We Have To Get Us Through This Life--and They Are The Only Things From This World That We Could Hope To See In The Next.