Five Star Friday's Edition #79

Check out the majorly butt-kicking "Five Star Friday's Edition #79":

This week's roundup is brought to you by Down Syndrome, gratitude, neglect, gift giving, cancer, fathers and sons, Scrabble, grief, rape, getting someone to switch, pouring love into the things you do, bedtime rituals, the falling of the Berlin Wall, Roald Dahl, people's ability or inability to change, Livejournal drama, love loss, racial stereotyping, memories, charity, inner strength, a feral kitten, The Great Interview Experiment, parenthood as a language, Buddhism, a meme, Canada's Remembrance Day, too much family, depression, and a childhood in East Germany.