Re: Burning Pain

Face Inthecrowd (facethecrowd@hotmail.com)
Fri, 05 Nov 1999 19:53:56 -0500 (EST)

I was about 11 when my parents got divorced, how old were you?


>From: Akane574@cs.com
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Burning Pain
>Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 19:46:14 -0500 (EST)
>
>In a message dated 11/5/99 4:24:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>facethecrowd@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > And Lauren, I am also a child of divorced parents.  My fatehr tells me
> >  stories about how he saw my alcoholic mother with a strange man at the
>movie
> >
> >  theatre a month after they divorced.  This must have been hard for him.
> >  What hurt us was the fact that my father hated my mother and mother 
>hated
>my
> >
> >  father.  They couldn't speak with each other.  When I was in Grade 
>seven
>and
> >
> >  eight, I was sure that my father was goingto kill us kids because of 
>the
> >  alimony payments.  Everyone gets a little fucked up from a divorce.
>Dozens
> >  of eggs get cracked.  It fucking sucks, in other words.  But the party
> >  responsible has to ensure that these damages are kept to a minimum.  I
>have
> >  plans and so does she.  She's an independent person but being loved 
>helps
> >  her and it does me, too.  I'm sorry I brought this up.
> >
>don't be so blind
>it isn't as simple as "keeping the damages to a minimum"
>-Lauren-

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