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Mending Fences

From childhood we’ve learned that part of life is losing and misplacing friendships, and then making efforts to reunite and make amends. Some friendships break up over disagreements or wrong choices - real or perceived - that are made. And sometimes life just takes you down different roads until one day you meet again. Do you remember a friendship lost until the two of you managed to patch things up, or managed to track each other down after many years, or across many miles? Or are you still hoping for that to happen before it’s too late? Think back about Mending Fences and share forward!

Caroming not mending

by Richard C. Kagan

I confess: I am not much into mending fences--either making them or breaking them or fixing them.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

by Khati Hendry

Could it really be that simple?

Song Lyrics that Fit

by Jim Willis

Sometimes the fences that need mending exist right within the family.

Mending Fences: An Exercise In Futility

by Kevin Driscoll

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Mending Fences

From childhood we’ve learned that part of life is losing and misplacing friendships, and then making efforts to reunite and make amends. Some friendships break up over disagreements or wrong choices - real or perceived - that are made. And sometimes life just takes you down different roads until one day you meet again. Do you remember a friendship lost until the two of you managed to patch things up, or managed to track each other down after many years, or across many miles? Or are you still hoping for that to happen before it’s too late? Think back about Mending Fences and share forward!