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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Sally,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Needs a title of course. How about Warming the Soul?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lovely as always and another snapshot in time that unites past and present.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leonard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Swamp Gnome<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nice twist at the end.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marcia,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Veronica<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good backstory for why Veronica is in Doe Lake. She has learned to lookout for herself as a defense mechanism, since no one else did when she was a child. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cleora<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For Better or Worse<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think this piece makes a good case for freedom of choice, however I am uncertain whether it gives any answers as to whether anyone has the right to make choices for another if their belief systems are different. It is within his right to choose not to bake a cake, but what if he were a doctor refusing to care for a patient or a policeman choosing to allow a person to be harmed by another person because he felt that they didn’t deserve his protection. If a business person wants to make a living, he shouldn’t allow his personal value system to dictate which individuals he wants to have as customers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DeAnna Quietwater Noriega<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cell: 573-544-3511<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <a href="mailto:dqnoriega@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>dqnoriega@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Author of <i>Fifty Years of Walking with Friends<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>https://www.dldbooks.com/dqnoriega/</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>