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I should probably mention that I got the date(s) Rebekah and I started dating again wrong in my previous post. The whole thing started on April 26th, not the 27th. And we started dating on the 27th, not the 28th. Hopefully I'll have all this straight by the time April rolls around next year.

I think there's a point in a person's life when everyone else decides that person can't be changed. Certain character traits simply and permanently become part of who they are. There must be some cut-off when parents give up in shaping their children and just accept the way they turned out, hopefully deciding they did a good job. Young adults permanently become bullies or jerks or unreliable or whatnot.

I believe there's always room to grow. I believe that no matter how old or set in their ways a person is, they can change if they want to. Maybe I need to believe that because of some of the people I know and love or because of who I am and traits in myself that I don't care for. Or maybe sometimes there are things/people that are too important to give up on. Whatever the case, I don't think there's ever a point when we can write a person off. You have to have faith in them and care enough to help them change, if they want to.