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Texas,

Don't worry. 'Trash' is very angry at her inner beauty. You can see that in his words.

Innocence hurts the eyes and souls of the damned.

There comes a point where they have to flee before it.

Come what may, her soul has been refined over time to where all the dross is out and we see only the beauty of what God see's within the Lovely Lady.

'Trash -

Thank you, sir.

At first I didn't know who you were speaking of because there are no current pictures of the lovely Terri out for the world to see.

Then I realized who you were speaking of and my mind when searching through it's many little 'rooms' until it found what it was searching for.

I saw the wedding picture of a woman who was giving herself to someone she loved. In God's eye, she took her place before the man who would kill her. How God looks at Michael is not for me to see, for God's anger is Just and not to be glanced at just for curiosity.

The next picture my mind cast itself upon was the one where she's in a tank top. What a breathtaking beautiful young woman! Many a head must have turned, and many a man must have wondered how a man could have got so lucky.

There's one where she's in a wheel chair. Relying on others for her care. What a smile she had. I wondered the first time I saw it, "who made her laugh where her eyes shone so bright?" One day, I'll know.

There's one where she's looking up at her mother. How many times, I wondered, has her mother remembered holding Terri to her body to ease pain as a baby, a child, young girl and teenager? As she both desparately tries to save her daughter's life and yet prepare herself to face the sanctioned murder of her little girl, I wonder does she feel those memories, as a mother is drawn to do? To gather her daughter up and hold her one more time, just one more time. I see that very struggle each time in my mind's eye.

And then...then there's the last one taken for the world to see. It may very well be the picture you so jealously hate. When all the false pride of a young beautiful girl/bride has been gleaned away. When the look is one of just wanting to be held, to be loved, and safe - clean and fed.

I don't doubt you laugh.

Oh, how I want to thank you, 'Trash!

For though I'll see those pictures again and again in the way the world wants them to be looked at, I'll see them again, and again through the eyes of the Lord.

And you know something, 'trash...?

Without your hate, I would have missed seeing the love of, and for this beautiful girl, called Terri.