Going kinda deep here.
20. Talk about your father and your time growing up with him. Talk about your Mom.
My dad was great. I moved in with him when I was 12, my sisters stayed with my mom, so it was just me and my dad. I was daddy's little girl, well more like little tom boy. He was fun and we got a long really good. We didn?t have much money or a TV so we played a lot of cards and chatted. He was a lady's man and was always bring home different women. Which was cool cause we had a really small apartment so if he had a girl over I got to stay out until she left.
He did like to drink a lot so we hung out at the bars, we even lived above one. He loved me but just really didn?t know how to raise a kid. He treated me more like a friend and let me drink and stay out till I felt like coming home. My friends loved coming over cause he was funny and of course he let them drink to. He was super protective over me when we went out but still I got used to old men hitting on me pretty early in life. He did the best he knew how. We had great times together and we had some really hard times.
He got cancer and that really devastated him mentally and physically. He didn?t take care of himself the way he should. Didn?t take any meds and just continued to drink and waste away. He ended up drinking himself right in to the grave at 36. He died 4 days after I turned 16 and my life was turned upside down.
I had to move in to my moms house which really didn?t work out. I stayed there for about 6 months before she sent me off to rehab in Indiana and from there on to the reform school in the DR. I just couldn?t get along with her or her new husband. I don?t think she had the patience to put up with me and didn?t know where else to turn to. I was pretty fucked up after my dad died so I can see where she thought I needed some help.
We have had an on again off again relationship ever since I left her to move in with my dad. She never forgave me for making her feel like a bad mom. She couldn?t and probably still doesn?t understand why I left her nice comfy home to live with my dad in a one room apartment over a bar with out heat or food half the time.
We had given up on our relationship and didn?t speak for 5 years. We just started talking again about a year ago. Now we have a decent relationship but it feels kind of superficial a lot of the times. We are both trying though and so far things have gone smoothly between us. I do hope that our relationship gets stronger but if it stays like it is I can live with that to.
Ok, after all that I think you deserve 2 pictures.
