On 2005-02-02 09:23:00, ~-=Sara=-~ wrote:
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On 2005-02-02 09:19:00, Anonymous wrote:
"So why do you hate them so much? Why can't you see that they had no power over their alcoholism?
Where is your compassion? Why are you so hell bent on your idea? So, there is conflicting evidence. You make it sound like I am wrong, when you really can't prove that you are right. And given the fact that so many of your family are alcoholics, should lend even more credence to my belief.
First of all - WHERE did I say I hate them?? You make no sense.
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Agreed! I'm in the same boat. I have 5 brothers and sisters and love them all. However, I
hate that they all discarded out of hand the terms of a real estate deal that we all inherited from my dad. Why? "I never payed any attention to your crazy talk?"--the executrix.
I hate that all that hard earned money went in several thousand dollar installments to my brother (and on to his crack dealers and bartenders) because
he could be trusted because
he was going to meetings again.
I hate that the land that my (alleged alcoholic) father paid off in full and stocked up w/ building supplies and equipment has been neglected and become a problem to the neighbors because who would trust a program screw up like me to do what I said I would and take it the final short step to make it livable for the whole damned clan. I hate that I'm spending even more than that just to live in a little po dunk town where I have no connection whatever. I hate that, in order to get along w/ my other brother, I have to keep my mouth shut and pretend it doesn't bother me when he holds forth on how his sponsor was so, so right about his sense of humor being a part of his "disease".
I don't hate my stepcraft steppin family. I just hate what that insidious and beguiling cult has done to our family and to my dad's plans for future prosperity for us.
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
--Thomas Paine, American revolutionary