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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (330095)	12/17/2002 5:08:46 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

No, they split up a couple of years before she went back to the church. They did not work out much of anything, though they are capable of being in the same room. My father is a womanizer, that was the main problem. My father is ambivalent about being Jewish. His second wife is gentile, for example. He does not attend schul anymore, as far as I can tell, although he does have a mezuzah. I think he was strained by the baptism, but not in a clearcut way, more like it was a curveball than a big issue. There have been worse fathers, and much better ones. Did you ever see "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz"? My father was too much on the make, and too selfish, to be a very good father. Complicating matters is that one of my brothers is profoundly disabled due to cerebral palsy. This had something to do with the divorce, and it also had a destructive impact in his relationship with his sons. It is too much to go into, but suffice it to say that he resented the burden of child support, and considered my brother's presence at home, rather than in an institution, an impediment to putting my mother to work full- time, and perhaps remarrying, thus easing his burden. No, we are not close. Family values means a lot to me. I am very close to my wife and child, do not run around, and have made a number of sacrifices for my son. I was, in a manner of speaking, inspired by dear old dad.......