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Omg I love this post!! Your writing is fabulous!

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Flashback 65 years ago to dad and I watching Sunday cartoons. Popeye finds out he has a dad and goes to see him. At which point Popeye's dad says "II hates relictives." After a laugh, I say to my dad

"Is that how it is? He replies " Yes" I make a mental note in the boilerplate that is 12 year at old boy's mind. "That's how it is." Luckily for me, my spouse's dad was a drunk who ruined every one of her childhood holidays, I have screwed up Christmas, but our children know we try. It's always about family.

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