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From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>

> Sandy and I are once again considering making Gretchen move out. Her lying,
> along with her life style, is becoming a problem again. She has had three
> bad drug tests so they have put her back into a drug rehab program which are
> just classes she has to attend each week. Plus she has to pay for the
> classes. Recently, Sandy and I were going to go out to eat with John and
> Vicki. My youngest son had given us a 40 dollar gift certificate so we all
> were going to go to a particular restaurant. I knew exactly were the gift
> card was but when we found it, the little plastic credit card was gone from
> the gift card. I took everything out of the drawer and my grandson even
> helped. It was not in the drawer. My son, when h e gave it to me, saw me
> put it into that drawer, too, so it appears it was taken. These sorts of
> things happen all the time when Gretchen is around. The problem of asking
> Gretchen to move is that we will lose her 500 dollars a month rent. I had a
> talk with Gretchen a week ago but it hasn't changed anything. So, I am
> going to talk to her again this weekend but I am not looking forward to it.
> Gretchen is also living, off and on, with a non Christian guy she used to do
> drugs with but she claims he is clean now. Sure and a chicken has lips,
> too, as my mother in law used to say. Since we still have legal
> guardianship of our 10 year old grandson, Gretchen's oldest boy, I refuse to
> allow him to go to this guys apartment. Gretchen was told this. Thursday
> night, she told me she was taking the boys to a nearby park. Two hours
> later, we found out Gretchen was at her boyfriend's apartmen t with her two
> boys and we made her bring Everett home. I talked to her yesterday about it
> and she lied and said I never told her she couldn't take him to Mike's. I
> am totally wore out from her lies. She claims she has now been clean for 5
> to 6 weeks. That's great, if it is true, and it might be because they test
> her at the drug classes each week. Regardless, I am beginning to wonder if
> some of our financial problems aren't literally because darkness is trying
> to live in my house of light. So your prayers that we do what's right about
> all this will be appreciated.
>
> Phil.
>
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