11.   It was during the just-completed camp that Sprotte talked as if the mental scars had healed enough to become a potential source of strength.

12.   Officers from the city, whose border is five miles away, had also been in touch to see that emotional scars heal, he said.

13.   The emotional scars have healed.

14.   Two weeks later, he saw the scar had healed without suture and had less scar tissue than normal.

15.   Back home in Texas where she lives, Skipp said she was thrilled with her experience, and her scars were healing quite nicely.

16.   But while the physical scars were healing, the lifelong bushwalker and outdoor sportsman said the emotional trauma was yet to be fully realized.

17.   For children who have been sexually abused, the scars do not heal easily.

18.   The centennial scars have healed into the pattern of a centennial emblem.

19.   He also said the emotional scars would not heal until the cause of the explosion has been established.

20.   The castrations, Blackbourne said, appeared to have taken place years ago because the scars had healed.