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  If You Are Joyful, then I Am Content.

  

  By harborlights, Janesville, WI

  I am lucky. It continues to amaze me that someone so insignificant and flawed as me could end up with someone so wonderful. But I am damaged. I long ago gave up on the hope that someone would be able to fix me. Even you don't know the casualties my heart has taken. And I am weak. ...
• Opinion > Environment
  Yes, We Should Ban the Keeping Of Animals In Zoos

  

  By harborlights, Cityville, WI

  Several years ago, the Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire, England admitted to killing excess monkeys. The park said that it cost too much to continue to feed the monkeys, so the animals were shot and left to die. This is just one of the many cases in which animals are mistreated, murdered, and m...