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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: altair19 who wrote (185964)1/29/2010 10:13:11 PM
From: koan2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 362187
 
My pa was like Orrin Hatch only not mean. I did not speak to him the last 30 years of his life. And I did not shed a tear on his death.

I had just finished graduate school, U of Wash, was broke and my wonderful wonderful mother, who was raised in abject poverty, but educated herself by reading to a great level of humanity, had a nervous breakdown when her husband left her. She also suffered greatly and was crippled from severe arthritis.

But she had taught me humanity in the most convincing manner her entire life. Racism, not acceptable ever. Period. Always be kind to animals. FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt took care of the people and the children in their moment of desperation. The great depression. And she always protected me.

I had no money upon graduating and my mother had no money, and could no longer work having gone insane, but my dad was rich. Although he did not give me one penny for college. Worked my way through college. All of it.

So I askd him to loan me a few hundrd dollars as my back was right agaisnt the wall. My mother insane and both of us broke.

So in my moment of most need, my father would not even help me a little tiny bit. He did not deserve me as a son and he never saw me again. I told him that when I gave him the finger and left his house forever.

I took care of my mom the rest of her life. And was glad to do it. She finally came back to the world of sanity, but was always fragile after that.

I gave her my youngest daughter to mentor and help raise as I had to work for two families. It was the most important thing in both of their lives as my mon would attest to and my daugther readily admits. And a fine daughter she ended up.
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