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To: bentway who wrote (340685)	6/21/2017 3:53:58 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 542224

My parents stayed together until my senior year. I left home to join the Navy at 18 (enlisting a month or so after my birthday) after dropping out of college because I couldn't stand the phuk-fest that was involved with being a minor, dependent and witness to "the-longest-and-acrimonious-at-times-on-and-off-again-public-spectacle-with-protracted-separation-ending-in-divorce-with-renewed-and-extended-post-divorce-hookups". I wished I had lived (more) with my widowed maternal grandmother and adoptive grandfather; the best people in the world and both smart as a whips. They had been traveling couples and only hooked up after knowing each other for fifty years and the deaths of their respective spouses 30 years apart. Both only had a high school diploma but the wits of business analysts despite being, respectively, a dress maker and rug salesman (who made good stock picking decisions). I look like my grandmother (who lived to almost 90) and my natural grandfather who died 15 years younger than I am now. Hey, but here I am now, in good health and married almost twice as long as my parents. We absolutely don't have to be our parents. To her dying day, my mother found it hard to accept that I had been married longer than her. Someone posted about people and denial on this thread. My mother had some great traits, but parenting and objective truth were not always among them.