Letting go of the heavy pieces of furniture.

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I’ve been reading pennyante’s “In the whole world”   and at some point  there’s this lovely scene between Lee and Adama . Here is a very tiny excerpt . It’s not really a spoiler, so I don’t think there’s anything to worry about.

"I don't know if Zak would forgive you," Bill Adama finally said. "I can see, now, that you need him to. You and Kara… you carry around this heavy piece of furniture between the two of you, and you look in vain for somewhere to put it down, and it never comes. There's never enough room. That's torture, Lee, and whatever else is true, you don't deserve that. No one who struggles as hard as you have to find ways to love others does."

This brings us to today’s topic – forgiveness.

They say that the stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naïve forgive and forget while the wise forgive but they never forget. 

Forgiveness never comes easy. How do Kara and Lee fit in all this? Are they stupid, naïve or wise? Are they something else entirely? Did they ever truly forgive each other? Did they forgive their parents? Did they forgive themselves for their (real or imagined) sins?