A story here of forgivness; okay a bit schmaltzy. What interests me is the dynamics of why it is called a story of forgivness. No apology is offered and no explicit forgiveness extended. It is all done by implication. The offended party seems to assume that either the new circumstances reframe the offence as insignificant [in other words the hurt is not great and can be easily 'swallowed'] and/or the apology is held to be implicit because [?] the relationship is such or the way that body-language communicated is such that the desire for apology was known. The act of forgiving is clearly in the offer to do something that presumes that the relationship is restored, to accept the offer is to accept both the offer of forgivness and the need for it ...
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