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Your mom lead a double life? How interesting! The cheating part, not especially great, but the fact that she had a whole other side that she kept secret for so long? I find that fascinating. When the local (very rural) county courthouse burned down many, many years ago, my grandmother was the first to rush in and collect all those old records that showed who was booked in jail and for what offense. She quickly destroyed them. I will always wonder what family secrets (maybe her own?) she was trying to hide. Whats done is done, what is past is gone... all that remains is history... and history is written by the winner. LOL!
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neverland, in shredding old financial papers I discovered that my parents had given large sums of money to my now-deceased alcoholic brother and his wife. They pretty much supported them for a few years. My father had not wanted to give them money, but my mother couldn't say no. Learning how much money it was, I understood better why he had come to hate my brother.
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I think we hold our parents in some mythical status of living in a time when these things didn't happen. Our grandfather turned out to be the result of an affair between a rich man's son and his maid. Does this make us all bastard children? No, just a little more informed on the imperfections of another era. You should set aside the anger, it is her life, and you will never know what motivated her, nor should you ask.
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