If you haven't heard the song "A-Team," you may click on this link whereupon you will encounter a video of said song and the relevant lyrics.
This is a lovely song, and it's also about a prostitute who's addicted to drugs, but it's written in a way that encourages sympathy for her and paints her as just another person with her own dragons and demons to fight. It takes a person who has made some bad choices and/or who has been very unlucky, and it draws out something good, which I feel is very redeeming. Not that it's all right to be a junky prostitute as long as someone writes a nice song about you, just that it's possible to see goodness and beauty in someone who maybe doesn't live a G or PG-rated life.
So here's a shout-out to Ed Sheeran for being a gentleman. Have a banana, Ed.
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