Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.