Posted by fayeroe on August 8, 2008, at 17:05:04
In reply to Re: Family situation...need to talk, please, posted by Sigismund on August 8, 2008, at 16:53:51
> I never got on with my father, but there was one time when he was in hospital for an operation, and I went to visit, and he looked me in the eyes and said 'When will it end?'
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> My wretched years in the family were redeemed by the compliment he paid by sharing his despair with me; or so I felt then and have since.My mom made me miserable as soon as I got old enough to have an opinion and yet I was the one who moved back in with her until she died after several strokes.
I was changing her one day and she grabbed my arm and said "glad, glad".....
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