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From Kara.
1. What are/were your parents' names?
Colleen and Nathaniel-never Nathan-Shore.
2. Where are/were they from?
Providence, Rhode Island and the outskirts of Boston, respectively.
3. How did they meet?
He overheard her making fun of him at a restaurant. I'm not making this up.
4. How long were they together before you came along?
Three or four years.
5. Were you an accident?
More of a failed experiment.
6. What did you love most about them growing up?
I loved my father's laugh. I loved his presence, the ability he had to draw people out of themselves (of course I didn’t think of it in those terms at the time). I loved my mother’s scent and her handwriting and her French toast and her touch.
7. Did/do your parents fight a lot?
This is exhausting. No. Not a lot.
8. Or did/do they have sex a lot?
Well, they did spawn me.
9. What is the worst argument you ever overheard them having?
I’d rather not say.
10. Were/are they affectionate?
With each other.
11. What is your favorite memory of them?
I assume this means together. When I was young-six or seven-on nights when I had trouble sleeping, I’d sneak into their room and watch them. It was…I felt safe.
12. Scenario: You walk into the house and find your parents getting busy on the dining room table. What do you do? What do you think they would do?
Walk right back out the door and buy a new house.
13. Were/are your parents hip or lame?
Neither. They weren’t hopelessly backward, but they didn’t make any special effort to ingratiate themselves with the teenage crowd, either.
14. Did/do they ever embarrass you in front of others?
No, I did that well enough on my own.
15. Which parent wears/wore the pants in the relationship?
My father, although I doubt he would have been able to do so without my mother’s consent.
16. Have you ever seen one of them crying?
I have.
17. Did/do you ever wish they would get divorced?
No.
18. Were/are they the type to spontaneously dance around the kitchen together or sit quietly in the living room ignoring each other?
The latter. They weren’t much for spontaneity.
19. Do you think your parents made you or ruined you?
They made me. Only one person is allowed the distinction of being my ruin, and he knows who he is.
1. What are/were your parents' names?
Colleen and Nathaniel-never Nathan-Shore.
2. Where are/were they from?
Providence, Rhode Island and the outskirts of Boston, respectively.
3. How did they meet?
He overheard her making fun of him at a restaurant. I'm not making this up.
4. How long were they together before you came along?
Three or four years.
5. Were you an accident?
More of a failed experiment.
6. What did you love most about them growing up?
I loved my father's laugh. I loved his presence, the ability he had to draw people out of themselves (of course I didn’t think of it in those terms at the time). I loved my mother’s scent and her handwriting and her French toast and her touch.
7. Did/do your parents fight a lot?
This is exhausting. No. Not a lot.
8. Or did/do they have sex a lot?
Well, they did spawn me.
9. What is the worst argument you ever overheard them having?
I’d rather not say.
10. Were/are they affectionate?
With each other.
11. What is your favorite memory of them?
I assume this means together. When I was young-six or seven-on nights when I had trouble sleeping, I’d sneak into their room and watch them. It was…I felt safe.
12. Scenario: You walk into the house and find your parents getting busy on the dining room table. What do you do? What do you think they would do?
Walk right back out the door and buy a new house.
13. Were/are your parents hip or lame?
Neither. They weren’t hopelessly backward, but they didn’t make any special effort to ingratiate themselves with the teenage crowd, either.
14. Did/do they ever embarrass you in front of others?
No, I did that well enough on my own.
15. Which parent wears/wore the pants in the relationship?
My father, although I doubt he would have been able to do so without my mother’s consent.
16. Have you ever seen one of them crying?
I have.
17. Did/do you ever wish they would get divorced?
No.
18. Were/are they the type to spontaneously dance around the kitchen together or sit quietly in the living room ignoring each other?
The latter. They weren’t much for spontaneity.
19. Do you think your parents made you or ruined you?
They made me. Only one person is allowed the distinction of being my ruin, and he knows who he is.