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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: May 22 5:57pm | Replies (299)

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I just found a couple of your other messages. Thank you so much. I have so much to live for and I know that and now buying a house back in a suburban area and out of the woods is so wonderfully good for me. I moved up to my lake home about eight years ago in northwestern Wisconsin and summers are amazingly beautiful but winters are just horrid! I’ve been away from my son for a few days now and my mind has been clearing. I keep thinking that I can get him to quit drinking and I know that’s not true. I’m sorry to hear that you did not have a good childhood. The longer my parents are gone the more I appreciate everything they did for me. It was 1957 and they were both in their senior year of high school and found out my mother was pregnant! And my mother did not want to marry my father but they got married . He was a very successful businessman that started at precision machine shop and even had top-secret clearance with the government. And my mom was a flighty artist! What a funny couple and they were both alcoholics but not abusive. I Have been listening to Holocaust survivor testimonials the last couple of months and I am just amazed at how close the majority of these families were and how they survived through losing their loved ones or the majority of their loved ones.

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What a beautiful and inspiring post. I smiled ..I was a senior in high school in 1957 too! Your parents sound delightful, and they certainly loved you.

To share a bit...one of my sons was addicted to cocaine for about 25 years. He is now 62 and has been clean for over ten years. Let the anguish go...I spent years trying 'to save him,' and after some of his friends died...he realized he had to work the NA program and that only when he said enough is enough would he stop. I have to look at his life now and say....he is happy...and I don't look for anything from him but am thankful for what I get. He was so bright but dropped out of college...and now he struggles financially. My Dad was an alcoholic, too...but that is another story.

There is an age for the woods and an age for the suburbs. You sound as though you have a pretty good handle on things. It is hard, but we have to let our offspring wake up.

Ah!!! I hope you still kept the lake home...tough to beat Mother Nature!! Be well with yourself.💞

I neglected to mention the Holocaust survivors--they are amazing examples of what determination, love, and perseverance can accomplish. These qualities can serve as examples to all of us dealing with the unknowns in our journeys.💞