Jeannette Walls – American author and journalist widely known as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com wrote a powerful memoir, The Glass Castle. She describes her nomadic childhood and kept this lifelong secret of growing up with her three siblings and having to eat butter for dinner, make her own braces, and suffer the whims of her artistic mother and alcoholic father. It took her a while to release the book because she feared that she would get ostracized once it was revealed. The total opposite happened. The Glass Castle is a New York Times bestseller.
Jeannette Walls was asked if she forgave her parents. This is her answer: “It’s finding the good and being able to leave the bad behind. It’s not even a matter of forgiveness. It’s more a matter of acceptance because I’ve had the life I’ve had and nothing is going to change that, it wasn’t so bad. There were wonderful things and there were horrible things, and you accept it. My parents had lovely qualities and maddening qualities.
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