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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're right.  He was selfish.  I'm glad you lambasted him.  He deserved it. [/quote]

Lol thanks. I mean...I was a kid. Jesus. And I was hurting. Like what did he expect? I knew I'd lost a parent. His description of getting together with the AP-turned-stepmom was just as bad. "I met Larla, and well, the rest is history".

What I wish is that he'd written down whatever version made sense to him, and just kept it to himself. To think he sent this to my mother is pretty unreal.

If this were all there was to him, it would have been easy to shut him out of my life. But he supported me in many other ways, including funding college and taking interest in my sister and I as adults. There was so many mixed messages that honestly, I never really felt like I could trust men. It was a terrible place to land emotionally.[/quote]

I love how you just casually mention he paid for all of your and your sister’s college. That’s not exactly a small sum of money, especially if there was grad or professional school involved, it is a monumental leg up over your peers to begin your career debt free. And you insinuate he’s helped you financially in other ways too.

A tween kid with divorced parents is something half of the country deals with. It sucks but it’s not something to dwell on or blame for your issues decades later.[/quote]

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