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What a surprise. Father actually did not call.
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 642533" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>My dad's "poor pitiful me" only became about illnesses after he retired. Before that he was a martyr to his work & he did it "all for the kids". I <em>hated</em> Catholic school, and not one of the 5 of us has been to church since we left their home. He stopped going to communion when I was born because they were practicing birth control, but my mom started taking it after she hit menopause. I mean, I never figured that out until she started going again. Why didn't he? And still he never missed weekly Mass until the day he died. The entire point of Mass is Communion for Catholics, so talk about mixed messages. People came to the house to give him communion all of a sudden over the last year or so.</p><p></p><p>I could never tell you how many times my dad would mention how successful someone else's kids were. He'd take out newspaper clippings, and read from books they were mentioned in. People we didn't even know, but somehow his knowing them made him more important.</p><p></p><p>This thread has been very cathartic for me. I'm glad that it is going on like this, because it helps me to see it all in bits and pieces, just as it happened. I could never digest the sickness and irony of it all in one fell swoop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 642533, member: 99"] My dad's "poor pitiful me" only became about illnesses after he retired. Before that he was a martyr to his work & he did it "all for the kids". I [I]hated[/I] Catholic school, and not one of the 5 of us has been to church since we left their home. He stopped going to communion when I was born because they were practicing birth control, but my mom started taking it after she hit menopause. I mean, I never figured that out until she started going again. Why didn't he? And still he never missed weekly Mass until the day he died. The entire point of Mass is Communion for Catholics, so talk about mixed messages. People came to the house to give him communion all of a sudden over the last year or so. I could never tell you how many times my dad would mention how successful someone else's kids were. He'd take out newspaper clippings, and read from books they were mentioned in. People we didn't even know, but somehow his knowing them made him more important. This thread has been very cathartic for me. I'm glad that it is going on like this, because it helps me to see it all in bits and pieces, just as it happened. I could never digest the sickness and irony of it all in one fell swoop. [/QUOTE]
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