The Family (pt 1)

[barano]

So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able.
Dar Williams - Christians and the Pagans

Ah. My Family.
What a motley crew of dysfunction, confusion, and just plain ol’ issuesOur story begins may years ago with a beautiful woman named Lattie Josephine Darby. Also known as

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[westernfallout]

You could seriously make all of this a book. Add a few fictional variables, and make up a dire life-or-death (or worse) conflict, and this could honestly be a novel. Or three. Written in roughly the same manner. Because it's already a very interesting story.

[barano]

You know, I could tell the story of my life, and not have to make up a thing. THAT. in itself. is scary.

[casey_leigh]

Westernfallout is right. And with your talent for writing? This is a very Flannery O'Connor sort of thing. Not at all to trivialize your history, it's just. . .my writing professors say write what you know, eh?

Other than that, I don't know what to say about all of this. Except that one night when I was ten years old and nosing through all my mom's college papers (she was taking night school), I saw a paper that detailed an abortion she'd had when she was eighteen, and the reprecussions it had on the rest of her life. That was surreal.

[barano]

Shh, don't encourage Matt! Hehe. That's dangerous.

it's so.. creepy to find out that sort of stuff. I was shocek. Although.. You know, I kinda had guessed that's what had happened. CLues and whatnot.