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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I am glad I am not alone in this. Thanks for sharing your stories.

The story about the second class status also felt very familiar.  It gets tiresome to read email after email about how much my parents do for their step kids.

As far as my parents being selfish, I remember my senior year in college, an Ivy, being called into the dean's office because the tuition payment was not made. My divorced parents had been fighting over how much each would pay - it was a couple of thousand dollars.  Both had the money and they both decided neither would pay.  I just took out an extra loan to make sure I could graduate.  To be clear, my reference to attending an Ivy League college was to emphasize how embarrassing it  is, in a school of tremendous wealth to be summoned to the dean to be told your parents are delinquent in paying tuition. And to be told that I may not be able to graduate.  But luckily, I was a senior and could just borrow it.  Now as a parent, I can not even imagine putting my children in a situation like that.

Of course, my parents brag all the time about how their two kids when to ivy league schools - which is both obnoxious and implies that they were great and involved parents who did something "right." Nope.[/quote]

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