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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After my mother passed away, my sibling and I found an envelope filled with blank greeting cards. The cards were written in kind of a random note style and all included listed time stamps, car and people descriptions, and were all addressed to my mother and sent from my father's business. I never knew anything about this, although I did hear my mother bad mouth my father after their divorce and suggest she believed he had been away on weekends with other women.
I feel funny writing this, and yet, my heart aches for her that she kept onto that emotionally difficult part of her life. I can't imagine she would have wanted me to find that, but why did she keep that stuff for 10+ years? (I wonder.)[/quote]

I am this PP.
The cards were written with *ransom note style* writing and listed times and dates of my father's coming and goings from his business, descriptions of the clothes he wore on his way in and out (apparently different clothes after he returned). The cards seemingly came from a colleague of my father who wanted to alert my mother (or perhaps my father?) that his sneaking around wasn't going overlooked.
My mother also talked about phone calls she used to get from women who admitted to having affairs with my father. My dear mother always loved my father and even after he left us, she admitted she would have taken him back. He married one of his mistresses and they've been married over ten years.
my father also stopped calling me and refused to see me for years after my parents' divorce. Something about wanting me to accept his new wife... anyway, he didn't come to my graduations, wedding, etc. Then after my mother died he started calling and we see each other occasionally. I do not  forgive him or his wife for how they screwed with my family, but he doesn't talk about those things with me anyway. Kind of- it's in the past, so why talk about it. 
Hopefully, I have a few years left of at least one parent more.[/quote]

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