[graciegirl]

I had heard this from JHooman before and she is a real person with real feelings. A wonderfully real person, a brave and funny one who is married to another wonderful soul.


I do feel with great respect to her a lot of people have stopped using that term on this forum but I don't think many really relate it to that awful event anymore.


I hope someday we can find a flip, crazy term that means that we have become intoxicated and swayed into a life changing event.


One that doesn't hurt anyone, but that in itself is very hard with so many, many, many years of life with so many, many circumstances represented by the readers of this forum..


I think we should all try to not take offense if the intent was not ill intended. AND to not GIVE offense if we know that someone would be hurt.


And I know a family that has a good reason to be offended when people casually use the word "retarded" but they also know that most people do NOT intend to hurt. Anyone.