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One more DNA test confirms Stone’s suspicions: Carter was the victim.

He and other wise minds deliberately practice taking other people's anger, suspicion and mistrust and then giving them patience, tolerance and compassion in return.

Someone let us down, someone implicitly taught us that love was not to be trusted, someone injected us with a dual suspicion of ourselves and of the solidity of any bond with another.

We hear so often of the difficulties of emotional misery; they may be as nothing next to the challenges of emotional contentment, the challenge of having to unclench our suspicions and give up on our reserves of fear and disdain.