Reply #67: Seriously? Okay, here goes. [View All]

[Bertha Venation]

My father left my mother when I was two (my sisters, four and five). He claims his father-in-law threatened to kill him if he tried to take us away from our mother, and that is why he never tried. It would have amounted to a rescue from the very depths of hell.

My mother committed suicide.

They're both forgiven.

Holiday: when I still lived in CA, I'd see my dad at Christmas for 5-10 minutes, when he stopped by my sisters' house to deliver gifts. Those meetings were strained because we have always, always -- him and my sisters, all of us -- been ill at ease with each other. Now, I don't see him at all.