Letters to the Editor
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You always have an invitation at my house, Cary
Thanks Cary! I am a fellow somebody who screwed up royally in my late teens and early twenties. Although I have spent the last 15 years turning my life around and making up for past mistakes, I still carry the "scarlet letter" stigma of my early adulthood. At public family events I am still scorned, whispered about and marginalized by family and family friends, even though I have done nothing gossip worthy in more than a decade. My children have suffered somewhat from this stigma as well, so those of you looking to exclude the black sheep should know that your snubbing also hurts innocent people. I too wish that some true princesses would appear at these functions, whose only goal would be to see everyone feeling as those they were the part of the "in crowd."