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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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ISN’T IT FUNNY? 25 November 2006 Strange, isn’t it, that it took sixty-one summers to admit to herself that she would love real parents even if only for just one moment back there all those years ago? - Owl |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hello Owl If we could travel trough time, we could repair many hearts... thanks yann |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
~sigh~again, the feeling of similarity; I knew my parents (though I admit limited understanding). |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
What a beautiful heart-warming reply, Yann! Thank you. Kacy - are you sure we aren't REAL sisters?  I knew my parents too - my mother only too well, and my father - well sorta. My parents were divorced when I was 11. For the last few years I have been trying to tone down my feelings of antipathy towards my parents and I have learnt to recognise that my mother taught me a lot and I think I have succeeded in being grateful for that. My mother died in 1972 and my father in I think it was 1986 or thereabouts. Yes, it was 1986. I feel a little better when I feel less antipathy towards them. I am going to try even harder and constantly, but it is not easy. - Owl |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 My parents divorced when I was 9. Mother re-married right away. I've written a couple of things about my family, once wrote a poem about my mom, when she won on an early 50's TV show "Queen for a Day." As for my father, it was "Daddy was a runaway, the bottle was his home" which is also song lyrics (acoustic guitar accompaniment).I've never quite finished that one. It took many years for me to 'accept' what happened during my childhood and teen years. After a while, some of it makes sense, though much never will, even if I were to live to one hundred. |
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graeshine2006 Member
since 2008-06-03
Posts 368The Prairie Lands, USA |
Geesh - the cycle of life... effects everyone. My parents are still together after 45 years, but tonight my mother and I had a nice, but serious talk about why I'm the "pink sheep" of the family. Things that I wish could have been different, things that she wishes could have been different in her family and with her mother.... what's the saying "if wishes were nickels".... doesn't matter, I'm rich in other ways. Nice write Diana. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oh, Debby, that is a beautiful story. I love sheep and I am picturing you as a pink sheep, (and you do look so cute, with a pink bow on your forehead as well) - which is, I presume I have understood your mother's delightful wit - the opposite of a black sheep. (I personally adore sheep of any colour or pattern!) It is wonderful to know that in hard times you can always seek refuge in a wonderful family. You are, indeed, extremely rich and blessed! I am too in all sorts of ways. - Owl |
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