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Don't Let the Past Steal Your Soul

by Keith Bumgarner·Last posted 5 months ago

About Keith Bumgarner

“Don’t let the past steal your soul; we’re all too precious to let that happen. ”

People sometimes ask me why I write about childhood abuse, male survivors, and politics. Wouldn’t I be better served picking one lane?

Here’s why I can’t: they’re the same lane.

My grandfather — the one decent man in my childhood — taught me a lesson I never forgot. Politics, he said, is the highest calling of public trust.