Introduction
Everybody rushes into things. It's part of what makes us human to be impulsive. Certainly some of us are more impulsive than others, but all of us at one time or another have done something because we have felt the urge, not the intellectual, rational necessity.
So it was with Lorraine Kemper of this story. She married for love, but she married a man she did not know, who was going to take her to a place with which she was unfamiliar. Even though it was only a scout camp, it was basically a masculine environment, and a new experience for Lorraine.
The lesson she ultimately learned was a hard one.
But people are not what they seem. Everybody she meets at Camp Bernhardt, a mountain retreat, conveys one image when they are in reality something else. But Lorraine is a naive woman, and she accepts her impressions of everybody. v
She is unable to accept that beneath every human exterior there lies a dark side, and in the end, Lorraine is corrupted by her innocence until her darkness is greater than the darkness of those who corrupted her.
Lorraine Kemper's tale can serve as a warning. Look beneath the surface of people, and do not try to shield your eyes from the truth of what they are. Look at the world through real eyes, and you will prevent yourself ending up like Lorraine.
Of course, Lorraine's fate is an extreme, and it isn't an outcome likely to happen often. Still, the moral can be translated to any phase of life, from romance to friendship to business.
So read Lorraine's story carefully, and understand that nobody is what they seem.