Wanted to signal boost this tragic tale from my buddy SubManUSN over at Skeptic Schism. If you draw something from it, please leave him a comment and let him know.
My mom had been estranged from us either by her choice or by my stepmother’s actions. To explain that last sentence, when I was picked up by my mom and my aunt (the same aunt from “Daddy Why Are You Crying” ) I was informed of the many letters my mom had written and mailed which I had never gotten. In one of them she detailed her falling out with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. In another, her divorce and re-marrying. She’d had another child, also. I now had a sister. The drive to my mom’s place was very informative to say the least.
I have often wished that I could write autobiographically, but I don’t have the knack or the nerve for it. I also don’t have stories anywhere nearly this dark, and for that I will always thank my mother, my adoptive father, and my great good fortune.
