If you were to hide your past from your beau, wouldn't you be
haunted by the question about whether he'll still love you despite
and in spite of? Would you rather know, or not know?
Everyone makes mistakes, especially in our youth. I guess our
mistakes aren't the important thing - what really matters is that
we've learnt from our mistakes, we're now on a clean slate, we are
wiser and we are putting our wisdom to good use by maybe giving
advice to others in the same boat... It's what we're making out of
our lives NOW that matters.
We cannot erase the past, no matter how embarrassed or remorseful
we are about it. Even God forgives those who ask for forgiveness!
So, who is mere man to hold it against someone else? 
If a man cannot see beyond the past, if he cannot appreciate the
woman for who she is now, and who she will become, then, it really
isn't love, but some kinda 'cattle parade' to search for the
'perfect cow'... oops, sorry, to be politically correct, it ought
to be, the trophy wife. 
