A teacher pulled a crisp, clean, new twenty dollar bill from his pocket and held it up so his class could see. He asked, "Would anyone like to have this?"

Hands shot up. Murmurs and laughing could be heard.

The teacher then folded and crumbled up the $20. "Anyone still want it?"

The hands stayed up.

The teacher then dropped it on the floor, stomped on it and dragged it across the floor a short ways with his foot. Now dirty and crumpled, the teacher picked it up and asked again, "You still want it?"

All the hands were up and a few people shot out 'Yes!'.

The moral of the story is, of course, no matter what you endure or have done in your past to 'tarnish' you, you still have worth.