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Over 25 years ago, in Grad School, my Counselor Education professor--a very bright woman--made a comment that only two things change people: Religious Conversion and Loss. At the time it made an impression on me. So much, that I can recall it now. I am not sure if that is absolutely true. In my life it has been to some degree. But, love has also changed me...God's and People, and even my departed cat Barnabas. It is weird when people make too much of their pets, but is also too dismissive to underestimate the power of companionship and care that a pet can bring into a life, particularly when someone has been neglected, an outcast, etc. It has been a rainy and cold month of December and early January here in Pa. Not cold enough for snow but miserable. All rain and no rainbows recently. Some very difficult things have happened this weekend--a long outworking of one of the issues outlined below in broad terms. It is now over thank God and I need to let it be over and face for