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Subject: Struggle
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Date: 4 Feb 91 21:51:44 GMT
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[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

>From Twelve Steps a Way Out.

   The story is told of a man who noticed a cocoon on a bush in his
yard. As he started to remove it from the bush and throw it away, he
noticed the end was opening and a butterfly was struggling to escape.
In an effort to help the emerging butterfly, he took it inside and
carefully cut the cocoon away with a razor blade.  The butterfly
crawled away from the open cocoon, within a few hours, it died.  It
needed the strength it would have gained from the struggle to free
itself in order to survive in the outside world.

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