Empathy

[Diana]

This is a quote from one of my favorite authors, Tom Robbins, from his novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues." It's not written from the perspective of the LOO, but the words fit here in this thread:

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.