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> Then I noticed it - a long letter "Dear Mom and Dad" propped up on the
> chair, carefully double-spaced, in a familiar neat script.

Be blessed that you get a note. Possibly some intelligent designer will
send a note to the 9th Ward New Orleans? Or, de Debil did it?

A chance and mundane comment recently brought me back to the exact
moment when my stepfather proclaimed that he had finally given up on me
completely. There were only two of us to mark that occasion in the lower
driveway. He was sincere. In many respects it marks the beginning of my
adult life.

All that aside... I have noticed that love hurts some of the time.

A friend recently commented that she raised her children to be
independent but regretted that they left home in their early teens, not
to return.

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