I am sure I will sound like a cornball but when I read the title of this thread I began to cry and I told myself I dare not read the other replies for fear of a sobbing breakdown, afterall it's not easy typing through a river of tears lol
I MISS, more than anything my Innocence and myopic Idealism.
I miss the feeling of knowing everything would be OK.
When I had to endure the painful abuse from my governess along with the threats from her that if I said anything I would be taken away from my mother b/c she let it happen. I knew that later that night I would be in the warm and safe arms of my mother . That felling that I could look forward to being with my mother after enduring the screaming and berating of my young spirit meant everything to me as a child !
HH