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[quote=Anonymous]My parents were wonderful, flawed, young, fun. Married at 22. Had me at 24. Divorced. Each remarried. Each divorced. Each remarried again (all before I left home). My dad cooked and baked elaborate things; could make pocket knifes and do woodworking and rebuild an engine; erect a tent. He made a kayak once. He is the platonic ideal of a dad in my eyes. My mom painted, crafted and sewed (including my wedding dress). She worked a lot and got up pretty high in her organization but she laid with me in bed until I fell asleep each night until middle school when I stopped asking. They grew up dirt poor in the same one stoplight town but entered a white collar workplace and tried to teach me how to pass in upper middle class culture (although they forgot to save even a dime in a college savings account and didn’t know kids could study for the SAT). I’d give them an A+. They pulled off the American dream of class mobility for their kid. [/quote]
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