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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probable fake post. Anecdotally, unless you are prepared to help your mom work through the devastation you say she will experience if you tell her, stay out of it and act surprised when she does find out.[/quote]
OP here. Omg it’s not a fake post! Please stop! Why does everyone always think everything is a fake post? This isn’t even remotely scandalous. Just stop![/quote]

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"Please stop!" "Just stop!" :roll: This is dramatic, controlling language and I'm even more convinced it's a story in someone's mind. In the first place, when you start a topic, you can't dictate how people respond to it and DCUM has plenty of trolls inventing stories for the laughs. In second place, what are the odds that you randomly heard of a grandfather's passing on a podcast. A [i]podcast[/i]? It'd be more plausible if you'd mentioned reading his obituary in the paper.

In real life of course you'd tell her. Now, if this was my book, she is a woman with "issues" to put it politely and who walked away from her family and refuses to keep in touch. They are effectively already dead to her. Why would she be so devastated by the news of the death of a father she refuses to keep in touch with? And if she would be upset, keep in mind she long made clear to the family she wants nothing to do with them or be part of the family, so they have no obligations to her either. Reaping the consequences of her actions.

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