We’ve each had Before and After moments in our lives.
Before and After we got married, got divorced, had kids. There are plenty of little Before and After moments in each day, but when the really big ones come along, they define who we are.
I’m rapidly coming to the realization that for me, there will be a Before summer of 2022 and an After.
Before I wrote this piece about the serial harassment I endured from Saskatchewan talk radio host and my former colleague John Gormley, still on the radio and wholly embraced by the Saskatchewan Party government as their number one mouthpiece.
Before I learned the man behind an online account that viciously attacked me every day for two years was a Lutheran Church of Canada pastor from rural Saskatchewan.
Many friends I had Before those things happened are not people I want to be around anymore, for reasons that are perhaps unfair to them. I’m learning it’s part of the process. Before, I felt like I had no real right to pick and choose who I let into my life, because I had no control over my identity.
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