It is a fundamental tenet to many religions that evil, while mysterious, may clear the way for good, that the soul is perfected only in battle, that pain and ecstasy are somehow twins, that onlya soul--or a century--that has truly suffered can truly realize joy.
"This kid suffered in secrecy and in silence and shame thinking he was the only one and never told asoul until the revelations came out about other kids and a coverup, " Mr. Anderson said.