Ive spent the evening at my Grandma's house. She is 96 years old, yeah 96. Physically and mentally she is almost perfect althought she has developed two bad habits:
1) getting my name wrong and always calling me by my cousins name at first (we do look a bit alike). She says "J.D., no I mean Leon.." I bought her some gin and she fucking loves it. She polished most of it off and then started calling me my brother's name as well
2) she repeats lines and stories a fair bit and I have to nod and pretend that the story she is coming out with is not the one I heard 15 minutes beforehand.
It was very interesting to hear about her life and she is the only one who seems to talk openly about the dark secrets that exist in my family. She talked about my parents splitting up, my cousin being killed and my aunt dying of cancer. Sad stuff but stories that no one else had been able to tell me.
She has had a hard life. She was born in Belfast (see Iggy you are not the only one from Irish descent
), thought her grandma was her mother, then her mother re-appeared and moved her around England. I get the impression her husband beat her (or was generally useless), her daughter died and my dad often treats her quite carelessly. She keeps fighting on though..
She said to me "Leon, you and I are outsiders" and that struck a chord with me. Yeah, Ive always felt like a bit of an outsider, which is why i exist on this website.
1) getting my name wrong and always calling me by my cousins name at first (we do look a bit alike). She says "J.D., no I mean Leon.." I bought her some gin and she fucking loves it. She polished most of it off and then started calling me my brother's name as well
2) she repeats lines and stories a fair bit and I have to nod and pretend that the story she is coming out with is not the one I heard 15 minutes beforehand.
It was very interesting to hear about her life and she is the only one who seems to talk openly about the dark secrets that exist in my family. She talked about my parents splitting up, my cousin being killed and my aunt dying of cancer. Sad stuff but stories that no one else had been able to tell me.
She has had a hard life. She was born in Belfast (see Iggy you are not the only one from Irish descent
), thought her grandma was her mother, then her mother re-appeared and moved her around England. I get the impression her husband beat her (or was generally useless), her daughter died and my dad often treats her quite carelessly. She keeps fighting on though..
She said to me "Leon, you and I are outsiders" and that struck a chord with me. Yeah, Ive always felt like a bit of an outsider, which is why i exist on this website.
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and what other thing are you sending me in the mail??? I am so excited now!!! and i thought it was really cute how you called it post in the e mail you sent me....
and, hey. it's not my fault that Johnny Depp keeps calling and calling, professing his undying love for me! I tell him to piss off, but apparently he just can't resist my charms