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mopinko

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4. i cant get that mad at them.

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 28, 2014, 10:20 PM

Dec 2014

i hated my folks for a good long time. it wasnt till i got the farm that i really appreciated what i did get from my dad. and my mother's patience and acceptance of the blows that life dealt her seemed like weakness to me back then.
and i also cannot fault them for sucking up the attention from their dad that they never got as kids. they have told me that they feel like he was just absent from their lives as kids, and he was. how can i fault them for a hunger that kept me in a mostly unhappy marriage for 30 years. thirst for his love kept me strung along. thirst for his love haunted them as kids. how can i fault them for drinking deeply, even when they know there is more to it than them.

we are a sad species. amazing we are still around.

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well the worst is over. [View all] mopinko Dec 2014 OP

Breathing and lonely, elleng Dec 2014 #1

oh grandbabies. how i wish i had a prayer. mopinko Dec 2014 #2

Sounds like a good idea. elleng Dec 2014 #5

It's been pleasant here after the initial deal with my sister a couple of weeks ago. Tobin S. Dec 2014 #3

i cant get that mad at them. mopinko Dec 2014 #4

. Tobin S. Dec 2014 #6

thanks. mopinko Dec 2014 #7

yes we are a sad species olddots Dec 2014 #8