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8. "I was 24 successful 1981 erstwhile I recovered retired successful the astir shocking mode that my dada was gay! I was joined and was astir to commencement my 2nd twelvemonth of teaching portion my then-husband was successful postgraduate school. Teachers get paid astatine the extremity of the month. He’d overdrawn our relationship again, and I threw a fit. I demanded that I instrumentality complaint of the finances, and for the archetypal clip ever, had to spell to my parents to get money. It was astir a week to payday, and I figured retired the smallest magnitude of wealth imaginable to marque it until the extremity of the month. My parents ever said I ne'er needed to telephone archetypal earlier coming over, truthful I went astir 4 p.m. earlier Mom came location from enactment and I didn’t call. I went successful done the store and yelled, 'Hello? Is determination anyone home?' with nary reply. Dad was connected a wellness footwear astatine the clip and was doing a batch of walking, truthful I sat astatine the room array speechmaking the insubstantial until helium came back, dreading what I was going to inquire him."
"Shortly, a gangly blonde antheral with glasses came down the hallway buttoning up a achromatic formal shirt. That’s each helium was wearing, and helium was successful a certain…condition. He stopped erstwhile helium saw me, astir the aforesaid clip I looked up. My encephalon went numb, and I automatically said, 'Hello.' He turned around, went backmost into Dad’s bedroom, and said, 'I deliberation your daughter’s here.' A mates of minutes later, Dad came out—thankfully afloat dressed—and we chatted tiny speech for astir 30 seconds earlier my 'fight oregon flight' kicked in. I blurted out, 'Dad, I request forty dollars.' I didn’t fuss to explicate why; helium wrote maine a check, and I left."
—Anonymous
24. And finally, "My ex remarried a fewer years aft we divorced. At first, things were fine, but then, his woman began causing problems for my daughter. When my girl was 14, she and her stepmother truly got into it portion she was determination for visitation, truthful she called and asked maine to travel get her. I spoke to her dada and asked if she could travel location and not spell for visitation for a period oregon 2 to fto things chill down. He agreed, but then, his woman insisted helium determination each of my daughter's belongings retired of their house, truthful she ne'er went back."
"Shortly after, my daughter's dada and the stepmom wrote horrible letters to her and mailed them to my location successful her name. When I saw the mail, I opened it, and I could not judge the things they wrote. The stepmother told my girl she, a teenager, was abusive and causing problems successful their matrimony and that she was going to crook retired to beryllium a unspeakable person. I enactment that missive distant and conscionable gave it to her past twelvemonth erstwhile she was 30."
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