Some of you here today are old enough to remember the number one, best-selling record of the Mills Brothers …
You always hurt the one you love
The one you shouldn’t hurt at all
No doubt it was a big hit because it is a common factor in our human experience. In the things we do and say we are always hurting the people who are closest to us. We can be so self-centered that often we do not realize how much we have hurt them until much later, if ever. As I said, some of you are old enough to remember the Mills Brothers’ expressing this in song. But now the young people have a new way of saying it. In the Broadway Musical, “Hair,” a young woman brings a young man a gift, a beautiful sport-shirt, to express her love for him. And in an impetuous moment, during a fit of anger, he tears the shirt to shreds. When he…
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