<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06dbdc2f-ff42-49fc-8f67-ffec891b4435/7188AFDA-52BD-426E-88ED-FFF9A2C497D2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html" href="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html" style="font-size: 11px;">activelyaware.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"><A href="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html">Shattered Pieces of Spousal Abuse</A> </H3> <DIV class="post-header-line-1"></DIV> <DIV class="post-body entry-content"> In light of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I am sharing this more personal post of the story of me.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><P>Once Upon A Time...there was a Little Me...So innocent, so fragile...so pure...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><P>Perfectly created, perfectly shiny...perfectly new...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/activelyaware.blogspot.com/img/A5B23BE8-04A7-4BDE-BC4B-409847168C15" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><P>Perfect neat or naughty...perfect messy, perfect happily just being me...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><P>Such a free little girl who danced through her life, giggling without reason, loving without hesitation, trusting without any reason not to...perfectly loved in an unconditional way...perfectly safe, perfectly protected from what someday would come my way.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2008/10/shattered-pieces-of-spousal-abuse.html"><P>Free to imagine how great I'd become, to daydream almost always, to be scared of the night and terrified of forever...free to be silly, free to spill my milk, to sometimes be flighty, usually messy and often late...a fragile piece of blown clear glass with nothing to hide, nor to hide from...free to be perfectly imperfect me.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7188AFDA-52BD-426E-88ED-FFF9A2C497D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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