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Family Politics

Death of Valor
Junior Member

since 2000-06-09

Posts 20
New Orleans

0 posted 2001-06-28 12:24 PM

My grandpa died this weekend. I never really knew him, but we got to go up to Tennessee and Grandma gave us food people had brought over. (There were a lot of desserts.) Daddy says Grandma is manipulative. Mom says Grandma gets offended too easily. I just say "love her, hate her, but don't try to joke around with her." I learned that the hard way.

I was concerned about schoolwork, but family politics are tricky; it seems when my mom says "Get to know your cousins," that includes talking, not just watching the Disney channel together.

Mr. ______ doesn't seem to agree with me. At least, when he was talking about responsibility when missing class, he didn't seem to be in the mood to understand family politics. But I didn't tell him I spent the weekend looking at a corpse, so I'll let it go and think about the horrors of too much dessert at Grandma's instead.

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serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2001-06-28 04:12 PM

You've got a nice style my friend! Reads like a page from a journal. Glad I popped in here today!

fractal007
Senior Member

since 2000-06-01

Posts 1958

2 posted 2001-06-29 06:57 PM

Interesting. I liked the diary-like style of your writing. It almost comes off as part poem part prose, with the complete lack of narrative "fluff" here. Good job.

"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh"

-- Magus

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2001-06-30 09:38 PM

Your brevity is showing, and that's a good thing. You packed in a lot of information and I felt as if I had been there for a glimpse of your day! Well done!

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