If she can lessen any further toll, she should, if only to offset any benefits she unwittingly derived from his crimes.
"Her refusal to give up any of her values -- she never lessens them -- and what she imparts to her students haven't changed since I was 6".
"You know you've made it when you're played on Hollyoaks, right?" she asks, lessening the impact of the intriguing self-loathing of Lost and Found, with its beautiful piano.
She initially met with social workers at hospitals and parents of children fighting cancer, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis and other life-threatening illnesses to find out how she could lessen their stress and make a difference in their lives.
While she hoped it meant that older women felt they still had something to contribute after family responsibilities had lessened, she added, they may also be doing it for economic reasons, given women retire with on average 44.3% less superannuation than men.
The physical and emotional discomfort for women is significantly lessened, she said; in fact, most women don't feel anything.
"Fortunately our society has started to understand that there can be mental suffering that is unbearable, and cannot in any way be lessened," she wrote.
"The diversity of people, both incomes and interests, has lessened," she said, "and we have more of what we used to call upwardly mobile people, who shop online or drive to malls, or get in cabs and go to Barneys".
Although I won the gold medal the scores are not satisfying so it's like my joy is lessened," she said.
When she sees how her food is prepared, her anxiety is lessened and she gains self confidence that what she is eating is not that strange at all.
