A Floodgate - The Opening of a Floodgate

i was moved to tears by the way in which our prime minister delivered the apology. The act of being able to do it and dealing with it in such a dignified way, but i think also humanizing it so that people didn't need to feel guilty about it. There's something i struggle to understanda one prime minister had already expressed regret, had acknowledged the the crimes of the past. But it took this word, this one word, sorry. And i don't understand why that is so powerful. It allowed people to feel and acknowledge their own pain in their own personal way,. I think also to a collectively, as a nation, that we could come together and to understand and