Archive | April 2021

Mouse, episodes 14 &15 (spoilers)

Apr27

This show has very good writing. Mostly, I’m just glad I’m right about the plot, but it’s more that I’m hoping I picked up on all the right cues from the writers, and that’s why everything’s fitting together so well. This may turn out to be a redemption story for our psycho killer, but that remains to be seen, as there’s one more episode.

All the excitement of episode 14 is the big reveal, and it’s done well, the audience finds out along with Ba Reum that he is the cross killer. It never was the doctor Yo Han. Yo Han is the good one, and it’s his brain power that’s giving Ba Reum his smarts and also his newfound emotions. I thought, I so thought, that Lee Seung Gi’s acting was hokey in the beginning episodes, that Ba Reum was a bit too nice to be genuine. It was too good to be true, for Ba Reum was acting the whole time, as often serial killers do. They can fake being nice guys. Perhaps women instinctively know this and that’s why we don’t really go for guys who are too nice…? But I digress.

Ba Reum is on the mend by the end of the episode. He’s accepted that he’s a serial killer who kills and enjoys killing serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, and the like. At first he thinks surely he can’t be with Bong Yi, but then he changes his mind, certain that he’ll find a way to punish these evildoers without killing them. That he can still bring them to justice and still get the girl. We get one of the only, if not the only kiss in the show. He friendship with Detective Go is also growing, as they now think of each other and older and younger brother.

How does Ba Reum figure out that he himself is the killer? First of all, he start having some hallucinations of himself as the psycho killer taunting him to kill, and also still picturing Yo Han taunting him. The biggest thing, is that through a series of coincidences he comes to realize that Detective Go and his brother both had similar lockets and that Ba Reum himself has one hidden in his house. Since Go has his locket, that can only mean one thing, that the locket Ba Reum possesses is the one owned by Father Go, the one the cross killer brutally murdered on live TV. The conclusion of that murder was that the cross killer considered himself to be God, a typically thing unrepentant sinners like to do. He also remembers that the necklace he made and gave Bong Yi is actually made of cat teeth. Ew!

It’s what he finds Bong Yi’s dear grandma’s brooch in his house that he knows for sure. He killed her, and before he ended up needing brain surgery. The old neighborhood where Ba Reum and Bong Yi lived is roped off to be demolished. Bong Yi goes there to his house and finds the underground lair–these killers always have lairs and hidey holes–and remembers other things, like holding the missing kid from a year and a half ago hostage while pretending to work with the cops to rescue him.

Excellent, excellent acting from Lee Seung Gi. He definitely seems like a generally good man finding out he is a monster. Episode 15 is largely the details, and well worth watching how everything came together to the present time. Many teases where Detective Go and/or Bong Yi finds out he is the killer, but that’s going to be saved for episode 16. Also, Ba Reum’s prison guard friends has now awakened from his coma and we find that Ba Reum tried to kill him too–and he remembers!

With his new empathy and emotions, Ba Reum’s Yo Han good side is practically dragging him towards a redemption, at least a works righteousness one. Inside, I think Ba Reum knows he can’t really make up for what he’s done, no matter how sorry he feels now, but he is compelled to try, though like what’s-his-name in Crime and Punishment, he’s reluctant to actually turn himself in. I feel so bad for Bong Yi. She’ll want to kill him when she finds out, and so will Detective Go. PD Choi will be more sympathetic, I think because she subliminally knows Yo Han is a part of Ba Reum now.

Redemption, redemption. God works in mysterious ways, and this is a fictional depiction of that. The cross killer and psycho kid who was angry at God for not stopping him from killing is now getting his chance, but God’s putting it on him, giving him the emotions and the will to change. It’s just too bad that he probably won’t be finding solace in the true forgiveness in Christ. Oh well, our entertainment rarely shows that truth. Will Ba Reum recognize this chance? Who knows, he may choose the dark side after all and Bong Yi may have to put him down. As for the stuff with Dr. Lee, I have no idea what’s going on there, but he doesn’t seem to know that Ba Reum was actually the real killer before getting brain surgery.

Continuing with the theme of the psychopath gene, PD Choi is struggling raising Yo Han’s child. People are awful, truly awful. And to a baby no less. And the baby will live and grow up with the shame of being a psychokiller’s child over them unless Ba Reum can successfully clear Yo Han’s name. Hopefully, that’s something that will happen.

The last big twist will likely be that Ba Reum is the son of the Headhunter, not Yo Han. Looking forward to that in episode 16. One episode doesn’t seem like enough to tie up all the ends, but I’m sure the writers will surprise me.

Until next time!

RRR: The Fifth Kiss

Apr22

Sometimes everything in stories comes together to make a great “show,” if you will, and The Fifth Kiss did just that. I found it highly entertaining, and alternating between being infuriating and delightful, which is what a good romance should be. Yes, yes, we women like the drama. It’s exciting, it’s where we often find our adventure. This was a standout among what I’ve read from the mystery box last summer so far. I’ve got about fifteen novels left. This one is written by Elizabeth Mansfield, who had a short story in the Christmas compilation with somewhat similar characters. She likes bookish girls, or Bluestockings, as they were called back then.

First and foremost, The Fifth Kiss would be easily adapted to TV, a show or a miniseries. That was the appeal to me, I could see it as a show, a successful one at that. Not only does it start out with our heroine, Olivia, shocked–shocked I tell you!–but throughout the tale we get to be upset and exasperated along with her as she finds out that the hero, Miles Strickland, Earl of Langley, is all too often right. We meet many other interesting characters, and have a really cool second romance later in the book. Several characters are there waiting to be further developed, and there could be several subplots added to the main story. Olivia is at first someone we like, and then don’t like, as we realize that Miles is correct, she interferes when she should not, but then we, along with him, come to love her again, as she’s such a dear with her niece and nephew and is really very good at running a household. Many relationships abound throughout the book, not just romantic ones, but those of father to daughter, brother to sister, father to son, masters to servants, and the like. Social and political commentary is also woven throughout the story and could be expanded upon in a show.

I was pleasantly surprised to find I liked our hero by the end. So many of these stories seem to think it’s a desirable thing for a man of that time to have a lot of experience sleeping around before he finds “the one” and gets married. In this one, we are shown a different view of infidelity and just what that means. It is sobering to remember that two people are always involved. We so often think a man or wife just goes out to cheat on their own, and sometimes that is the case, but sometimes it is that their spouses have left them or retreated from them in some way. Doesn’t make cheating or infidelity right, of course, but it puts things into perspective: Neither is it right for spouses to cut their partners out of a piece or pieces of their lives. A marriage is two lives wholly shared, much more than any other relationship. Someday I hope to experience that also, but, for now I have the tacky romances.

This one wasn’t so tacky, really, the cringiest part was when Olivia Matthews takes it upon herself to get some kissing experience and it was just hard to believe she’s quite that dumb, but some people are. Mansfield got the descriptions right, the strange experience when someone has more emotion or ardor than you do. It’s sort of a disembodying thing, and of course sad for the other person to be kissing you so ardently with no response, but it happens. Unrequited love, unrequited attraction, such a great disappointment, not evil exactly, but it’s always something that seems like it should not be, a great wrongness in the world. However, a couple of the men in this story press on when they should not, forcing their physical attentions on the hapless Miss Matthews. No matter how sorry I may be for them, it just isn’t right. Olivia bears up well, though really doesn’t seem to understand the danger she sometimes puts herself in.

The part about the story that got to me was Olivia’s moral outrage, which ended up being misplaced, and her interference. Sometimes we–often, but not always, women–see a wrongness and think we have to, we must correct it. Really, we should wait and see first if anyone is asking us to interfere, yes, even if God is asking us to interfere. Most of the time not only is it not our place, but also there’s always more to story that we don’t know, and our interference will only make things worse, especially if it’s not wanted. In this case, the true moral wrongness was a wife cutting a husband out of her life, perhaps with the intention of saving him from pain, but giving him more pain in the process. Olivia is humbled and a bit bewildered. She really doesn’t understand what a marriage relationship is or means. And she really does not understand men, but fortunately, she grows up through out the story and comes to understand how to deal with them and bring out the best in them, well, at least in one of them. That was very great to read.

The Fifth Kiss is one that may stay on my shelves, though it’s no Jane Austen, so time will tell. There are actually six kisses or series of kisses in the novel, and it is the fifth one which makes our hero realize he loves Olivia. He finds it horrid to find her in the arms of another man, even if her feelings for the man are stone cold. So, nothing especially magic with a fifth kiss, just that it was the turning point in the romance of the story.

Mouse, eps 12 and 13

Apr21

These two episodes felt a bit like filler, or just more standard procedural fare. Basically, they are just about Ba Reum now embracing the role as a serial killer of serial killers and other monsters, beginning with the pedophile who attacked Bong Yi as a girl and has now been released, Kang Duk Su. Pretty much all the characters in the show agree that he needed to die, even if it was by vigilante justice and not due process.

Detective Go, smart cookie as he is, immediately senses that whoever killed Duk Su was a psychopathic killer because of the way he killed him, an eye for a eye–every mark that he had made on Bong Yi’s body in the past, the killer, we know is Ba Reum, made on his body. For a bit Go considers that Bong Yi could be the killer, but it’s more that he just wants to make sure suspicion doesn’t fall on her, I don’t think he really thinks she did it. Similarly, Bong Yi is certain Go killed Duk Su, as he had promised her once to do so, a young officer to a child. Yoo Na, the child Bong Yi was trying to save and the one Ba Reum did save, knows it was Ba Reum, but she doesn’t know she should also be afraid of him, for he would now kill her without a thought if she gets in his way.

We learn more interesting backstory: Our cross killer as a boy was indeed a psychopath, passing up dying children on the street as it interfered with playin his video game. Truly, he is ill, and really cannot relate to the emotions or pain of regular people. His presumable mother, wife of the Headhunter, we find was kidnapped and almost killed by yet another serial killer when she was 9 months pregnant. This case is later connect to the SuSeong killer case by Bong Yi, who is offered a job as a writer by PD Choi at her network. PD Choi, we find was held hostage as a girl along with another young woman who didn’t make. The woman wanted to be an awesome producer, and that is why PD Choi chose her profession. Likely, they were held by the Headhunter, but that is to be yet confirmed.

Ba Reum seems to be better at channeling his literal killer instinct: He doesn’t end up killing his cousin, but instead goes after the cat who scratches him to keep him away from the boy. So really it’s anger at the cat that prevents him from killing the boy. Later, he actually does use willpower to stop himself bashing Yoo Na over the head, so afraid is he that she’s going to reveal his secret. A couple of times we thing that Go figures out he is this newest psycho-killer, but we find it’s misdirection orchestrated by Ba Reum himself.

Episode 12 deals mostly with somewhat tediously connecting the right culprit to the SuSeong serial killer case and proving the man in prison innocent. Ba Reum finds his next target in Li Jae Sik, who did time for supposedly killing a girl’s rapist. Turns out he was the culprit and the young man who died or was at least seriously injured was his step-daughter’s friends or boyfriend. As Ba Reum is just about to take Jae Sik out, Detective Go also puts the pieces together and comes across him, surprised to see his friend there. Bong Yi, too, gets a surprise, finding her honey’s face on a bike webcam that someone’s turned in from the child predator killing. They know! Or do they? We’ll see in the next episode.

Some intriguing things: PD Choi is finding herself having an unexplained connection to Ba Reum as pieces of doctor Yo Ha’s personality keep peeking out. Ba Reum is jealous of the close, family-like connection that Detective Go and Ba Reum share. The more time Ba Reum spends with Dr. Daniel Lee in the Headhunter’s old lab/warehouse/stomping grounds, the more I wonder if he’s merely hallucinating, if the doctor is in his head? There’s been little to no explanation as to how or why the doctor is still alive. Also wondering if Ba Reum’s hallucinations of Yo Han aren’t exactly that, for Yo Han is an entirely different personality than he ever showed in life.

Still sticking with my theory that Ba Reum himself is the cross killer, and possibly the Headhunter’s real son, and that it is Yo Han’s brain that is the genius good one. I know that Detective Go’s a bit too old for her, but Bong Yi would be much safer with him. alcoholic that he is. Still wondering about that suspicious young detective who’s always in the background. Hoping this week’s episodes are back to riveting, but with twenty episodes, any writer would have trouble sustaining that, and riveting needs breaks every once in a while to stay, well, riveting.

Author’s note: This was meant to be a review of 12 and 13, title changed.

Mouse, episodes 9-11

Apr15

Spoilers aplenty.

Let me begin with my ultimate theory on this show, which I haven’t yet given up on, despite much evidence to the contrary. It is this: Lee Seung Gi’s character, Jung Ba Reum is the serial killer the detectives are hunting for. He’s either the real son of Han Seo Joon, the Headhunter, or the other baby who’s mom also participated in Dr. Daniel Lee’s research on the psychopath gene. His real self is the psychopath serial killer.

In episode 9 we are given more insight into what happened to Ba Reum. By a series of quite interesting incidents, the Headhunter serial killer, also brilliant neurosurgeon, was called in to perform brain surgery on Ba Reum to save his life. As his brain was handy, Yo Han’s brain was used. Since Yo Han was in theory the killer Detective Go and everyone was hunting for–the one who began as a child with a serious beef with God, Ba Reum now has the mind of a serial killer and doctor. He’s brilliant and makes a great detective. He’s also now plagued with thoughts of killing people and is starting to act on it.

Here’s where my theory comes in: I think that Yo Han is another misdirect by the writers. I think he’s actually innocent, and may not even be the Headhunter’s son, but another boy who was simply a genius. Do I have evidence for this? He told his mom, “Your son is a killer,” not “I am a killer.” PD Choi had a love life and a baby with him and states they are the same. How exactly they are the same, I don’t know. The important thing is she really doesn’t believe he’s a psychopathic killer, not deep down in her heart. The three biggest reasons I have for thinking that Ba Reum, not Yo Han, is actually our killer is that 1, Ba Reum’s personality didn’t seem quite genuine at the beginning of the series–a somewhat dumb, simple guy with a heart of gold, and out of sync with the gritty world around him. Could he be putting on a show, much like his magic show he performs at the prison? 2, and this is a long shot, but significant: In the scene where Yo Han attacks Ba Reum, we get a glimpse of Ba Reum’s face just before they fight. The expression is not the Ba Reum we know, but an intelligent man, eager for the fight, a horrible killer who, I think, Yo Han has actually been trying to find and to stop. Like Detective Go, Yo Han surely thought such a man should die and probably that beating his head in with a hammer was even too good for him. This relates to 3: for some reason, Yo Han had a collage of pictures of Ba Reum in the secret room in his basement. Inexplicably, Ba Reum knows about this room and sees the collage–that, I don’t think has ever been explained yet–and also seems to know exactly why Yo Han has such a collection. Yo Han has perhaps been hunting him, the genius hunting the psycho.

So Ba Reum thinks he now has a serial killer’s brain in his head, but really he was the serial killer and now he has a partly good and intelligent brain taking over his body, fighting against his desire to kill, kill, kill. The wanting to kill simply comes out because it’s the larger part of his brain, for now, and something that Ba Reum originally hid from everyone, except his victims. Ok, probably it’s not how the story’s going to end up, but I like the theory, and I’m sticking to it for now because it’s more intriguing to me than the more simple good guy being taken over by serial killer brain.

To the episodes:

We are now getting a lot of backstory and ends starting to tie up in a very confusing web. Episode 9 basically confirms that the lifetime imprisoned Headhunter did indeed do brain surgery on him and used Yo Han’s brain. In addition, with Ba Reum’s genius he’s able to figure out that the Headhunter wasn’t just killing people, but was doing experiments on them. Basically, humans are rats to this awful neurosurgeon who thinks he’s God.

In addition, we find out more about the Headhunter’s past, and insight into both his creepiness and his genius. Turns out Dr. Daniel Lee is very smart, too, and helped him solve a difficult medical case. Daniel was a janitor at the hospital at the time and admires the neurosurgeon. The two become friends and the Headhunter give Daniel the idea to search out not a good gene, but a bad gene, a psychopath gene, and use that to rid the world of bad people. Later, the Headhunter regrets setting him on such a course–he really didn’t think he’d succeed at it. The Headhunter also blames Detective Go, the child, for ruining his experiments, as it was child Go who helped the police catch him.

Episode 9 deals largely with the knot killer, who everyone thought was a police detective who also has a very suspicious lawyer son. This knot killer may or may not be the same person as the one with the beef with God and who sets up his victims to be giving the finger to the cross. It’s confusing to me, and sometimes it seems it’s meant to be the same person, and other times not. In any case, Detective Go takes the fall for the murder of the officer everyone thought was the knot killer. He’s happy to go in, so that Detective Park Du Seok’s wife doesn’t have to go to prison. Detective Park is the one who was trying to catch the Headhunter 25 years ago. The Headhunter took his kids as consequence and killed them. However, this is also mixed up with the knot killer who supposedly was the one who really killed his daughter (the son was killed by the Headhunter). Whew! Confused yet?

But the officer is not the knot killer, it is actually his son, which, if you’re paying attention, doesn’t come as a great surprise. Ba Reum with his genius figures this out and in addition figures out that Detective Park’s wife did not kill the officer in the hospital, and neither did Detective Go. Turns out the officer buried a different little girl that his son, the lawyer, and the real knot killer actually killed, and he pretended she was Detective Park’s daughter. So where’s Detective Park’s daughter buried? We don’t know. Is she still alive? We don’t know. So, Detective Go gets released from jail, foiling the plans he had to murder the Headhunter in prison. Ah, well.

The lawyer, Woo Byung Chul, son of the police officer and, drumroll, a woman who participated in Dr. Daniel Lee’s study into the psycho path gene, is the knot killer. It’s implied he’s also the cross killer and that Yo Han is innocent. I think they are mixing up cases or something, but I do agree that Yo Han may be innocent. If so, how does that explain what’s happening in Ba Reum’s head? See my theory above.

We also get some interesting stuff with PD Choi and the Headhunter. She went to interview him in prison at one point and also planned to kill him there, but chickened out. Is she a former victim of his? At one point, in talking with Detective Go about the Headhunter’s son, Yo Han, and their relationship, she says, “he’s like me.” Interesting.

Ba Reum is seriously struggling not to kill animals and people. His cat’s afraid of him and he even tries to strangle Detective Go, who comes to his house drunk. He also understands that the memories he has of the yellow-jacketed kid, the one in the beginning who brings the mouse to the snake’s cage is not him. He bases this assumption on a picture his aunt gives him. It’s of him as a little boy in Kindergartener and the boy is the not the same one he remembers. Not sure about that one, as a first person memory, you wouldn’t really even see your own face, so if he’s seeing it as a third person memory, the little boy wouldn’t be him anyway, but, meh, details. There’s no reason to think that little kid is a psycho, just that he somehow had the mouse that the Headhunter did brain surgery on to make it more aggressive. Who the older girl is that stomped on the mouse, saying it needed to die, we still don’t know.

Episode 10 is much backstory, too, dealing a lot with how parents handle their psychotic kids. The mother of the lawyer knot killer didn’t end up very well, she ends up dead at the hands of her own son, who grew up to have his dad, the officer, cover for him so he could kill a lot of women. It’s disturbing stuff, basically because the mom does try to kill both her and her son to preserve other lives, and also because she has a graphic connection with the Headhunter’s pregnant wife at the end. They definitely are not short on the horror in this show.

We are happy to find that Detective Go is still alive and that his friend didn’t strangle him to death or pummel him with a rock. No, Ba Reum pummeled his own hand to get himself to stop choking the detective. Go really has no clue something strange is going on with Ba Reum, and it may take a lot to convince him that Ba Reum is or is now a killer that must be stopped by him.

Interestingly, Ba Reum goes to church to ask God to stop him killing, much like our psycho boy from long ago, the presumed cross killer. The cross killer is back, but it could be a copycat or accomplice, and in the end it’s a bit muddled with the knot killer. Go and Ba Reum definitely now have evidence against the lawyer, who is now apparently guilty of both the knot and the cross murders and someday I’ll watch it all again to figure out the connection, but while Go is actually fine that Yo Han wasn’t a killer, Ba Reum is not. Of course, this is because if Yo Han is not a killer, what then is going on in Ba Reum’s head? Aha. See my idea above.

The end has a great villain scene where Ba Reum confronts the lawyer in a warehouse and gets him to reveal his true self. Song Jae Hee does a great job in this scene, using all the creepiness he can. With his good side angered, Ba Reum’s bad side takes over and he actually kills Jae Hee. In episode 11, Ba Reum tries to turn himself in, but it doesn’t work out the way he wants–Detective Go and forensics go to investigate the warehouse, but there’s no evidence of a murder there! Still, Ba Reum is certain he did it. He wasn’t hallucinating. But, with video footage of the lawyer escaping the country surfacing, there’s nothing Ba Reum can do. Everyone just thinks he’s having complications from his brain surgery. Well, he is, just not in the way they think.

Ba Reum is now assigned officially to the Evidence room team along with Detectives Go and Park. It’s a recipe for something, but I’m not sure what.

In a twist, we find out why there was no evidence against Ba Reum: Dr. Daniel Lee is somehow still alive and has been keeping tabs on him! When Ba Reum asks him, didn’t Yo Han kill him, Dr. Lee brushes the question aside as irrelevant to the moment. So! Considering my theory above, let me add to that: What if Yo Han was working with Dr. Lee to track serial killers–because he’s a genius, not a psycho–and what if they were both tracking Ba Reum back in the day? Just, ideas. At any rate, Dr. Lee gives Ba Reum an opportunity to become Dexter: to be a serial killer that hunts and kills other serial killers. Use his instinct to kill for a sort of good. Ba Reum tells him he’s crazy, but the rest of the episode he’s clearly in a losing battle against the evil side of his brain.

Not only is Ba Reum clearly harming his cat and not remembering it, he now does remember killing his bird in the cage while recovering in the hospital and is horrified. His aunt has a son, his cousin, that he doesn’t remember, but bonds with instantly and stupidly takes the kid from his babysitter to come over to his house, hang out, and see the cat. Never do such a thing without getting parent approval, never, never! Of course the awful happens, Ba Reum snaps into his psycho mode and it appears he will kill the boy.

We also get to spend some time with Bong Yi, who wants to deal with her rapist herself. She doesn’t want Detective Go or Ba Reum’s help, and she’s determined to make that man avoid her. But the tables are turned at the end when she realizes the predator is a pedophile–she’s too old for him know and he’s hunting a young girl in her neighborhood. Bong Yi valiantly steps into action to save the girl’s life and she puts up quite a fight. The ending scene is her fading into darkness, asking the man standing over her to help the child. The man is Ba Reum and it appears he may have taken Dr. Lee’s advice to heart and is planning to focus his killing instinct on the monsters who harm other people.

Whew! There’s so, so much to this show, it’s hard to keep up. The beginning of episode 11 also has a great scene between our cross killer as a boy and another boy who is good who he admires and wants to be like. Are these two our genius and our psycho? It appears so. I’m curious to see if this psycho boy is actually the cross killer or if he only could have been and ended up choosing a different path. Maybe that’s to come. We’ll see. There’s also another detective acting very suspiciously who is possible another serial killer or maybe just a minion of the Headhunter. We’ll see. Can’t wait to watch episode 12 tonight. I’m sure it will bring all my theories to ruin. Oh well, that’s what great stories do. The acting is all spot on, and the directing good too, only one almost doesn’t notice it trying to keep up with the web of a plot.

Delays…

Apr11

Hi, Readers! Sorry I haven’t done a review in awhile. I have been in the process of moving and finally have everything moved and unpacked, so this week I should be back doing reviews, especially on Mouse, which is an awesome, crazy show. I’ll also have a brief review of a Regency romance by Julie Klassen–she is currently one of my go to authors if I want untacky Regency, and will maybe have a few thoughts on The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis. Happily, I’m on to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and am fascinated by the fact that if anyone mentions a wardrobe in America–which we don’t often do–that person or someone else has to mention Narnia. Or maybe it is only I who feels compelled, compelled, I tell you! Live by water sometime in your life. It is greatly calming and also makes life seem more epic. It will be interesting to see if my writing improves at all with a new view. Speaking of that, I haven’t read A Room with a View in quite awhile and it’s calling my name, along with about fifty other books on my shelves…

Forgiveness Is Real

Apr2

Happy Easter weekend. Jesus is risen! Forgiveness of sin is real, it’s a real thing, and the greatest miracle this world will ever know, aside from creation. It’s staggering to just really think and consider on what Jesus did–he led a perfect life for us and then paid the punishment for all of our sins, an innocent man! But he wasn’t just a man, but also God and he died once for all mankind. Our creator loved us so much that even when we rebelled against him in evil, he made plans to save us, and those plans cost him much. Redemption and forgiveness don’t come cheap. They required a blood sacrifice, and Jesus Christ, God’s Son, willingly paid that price for us. What a marvel. What a true marvel and reason for hope in every day we live! We gain heaven, when what we deserve is hell. And heaven is our true home, not this fickle, uncaring, corrupt world. Forgiveness is real! I am forgiven! You are forgiven! And we are all free to go and live in love, charity, and kindness. Death no longer holds a sting, but is now an entry into a new, wonderful life. He is risen! Can’t say it enough. Happy Easter!