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“Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.”
#excuses
#ignorant

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" I never believed in Santa Claus."
#ThanksMom #GreatChildhood

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"'You kids. You make me ashamed. Do you hear me? Ashamed!' He turned down the street to Junior's bar. We all watched him go. 'You're ashamed of "us?' Lori called after him."
#really #youshouldntbeashamedofthem

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"lets really light up this christmas,"dad said and trust the lighter into Douglas fir."
# crazy
#Ruined christmas

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“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
#life #comedy

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"Dad was still in the house, so I leaned over Brian and shouted to the the top of my voice. Dad appeared in the doorway , his arms folded across his chest. ' Dad , please come, we need you i hollered

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"Where dad?"Maureen asked all the time. She was a year and a half old, and these were almost her first words.
#1parenthome

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Dad was so sure a posse of federal investigators was on our trail that he smoked his unfiltered cigarettes from the wrong end.
#crazy

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Lori caught up with me, and we walked for a while in silence. "Poor Mom," Lori finally said. "She's got it tough." "No tougher than the rest of us," I said. "Yes, she does," Lori said. "She's the one who's married to Dad."
#Roughtimes
#Baddad

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"Lori said it sounded felonious, but Dad said all he was doing was outsmarting the fat-cat bank owners who shylocked the common man by charging usurious interest rates." #rebel

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" There, crouched on Maureen's lavender blanket, a few inches away from her face, was the rat"
#rat #scared

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" 'You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you' "
#don'tcare

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"Lying on the mattress next to mom was one of those huge family sized Hershey chocolate bars."
#fatty #selfish #yum

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"' I kissed Jeannette!' Billy yelled."
#SexualHarrasment #ItDidn'tCount #HerEyesWereOpen

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"She’d been reading books on how to cope with an alcoholic... drunks didn’t remember their rampages. ‘Your father needs to see the mess he’s making of our lives,’ Mom said. When Dad got up, he’d act as if all the wreckage didn’t exist. The rest of us had to get used to stepping over broken furniture and shattered glass." #headinspace #notcompleatlythere

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"City life was getting to dad. "I'm starting to feel like a rat in a maze,"he told me." #Not used to #life in the city

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"It got so cold in the house that the icicles hung from the kitchen ceilling [...]'Cold weather is good for you. I

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" 'what do you think would happen if we weren't always moving around?' I asked. ' We'd get caught' Lori said"
#FBI #movingconstantly #undersuspicion #undercover #newplaces

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"'You busted

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“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
#dadisnotthelifeguard
#donnotdrownjeanette

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"'That's true,'" Mom said, 'but it [the ring] could also improve my self-esteem. And at times like these, self-esteem is even more vital than food.'"
#your kidsaregoingtostarve

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''yall walls don't burn garbage!''
#trash

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"I told her she was letting fear get the best of her, and since this was one of those times that we had electricity, I turned on the light to prove it"
#paranoid #fear #bravesister

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''I felt the blaze of the heat on my right side. I turned and to see where it was coming from and realized my dress was on fire.''
#onfire
#blazinghot

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"People these days run to the hospital every time they skin their knees," she added. "We're becoming a nation or sissies."
#followers
#whimps

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“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
#acceptance

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"Dad hurries down the hall with me in his arms. A nurse yelled for us to stop, but dad broke into a run.

#savage
#crazydas
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“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
#beindependent
#bestrong

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''It was good''

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"'Don't worry, God understands," Mom said. "He knows they your father is a cross we must bear."
#relatable #beliefs

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"life is like a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in "
#weirdos
#lifeisunexpected
#fewcraziesintheworld

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"i got into a fight with a mountain and the mountain won"
#defeated
#bad parent
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"Don't be so picky,'she told me.'Just slice off the maggoty parts.The inside's fine."#theglasscastle #subtext

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"My husband doesn't beat me" #ThatsWhatTheyAllSay

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"Around that time, probably because of all the garbage,a big, nasty-looking river rat took up residence at 93 Little Hobart Street. I first saw him in the sugar bowl. This rat was too big to fit into an ordinary sugar bowl, but since Mom had a powerful sweet tooth, putting at least eight teaspoons in a cup of tea, we kept out sugar in a punch bowl on the kitchen table."
#disgusting
#livingthedream

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'no animal, no matter how big or wild, is dangerous as long as you know what you're doing,'
#crazydad
#kidswilldie

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"'For the daughter of the town drunk, you sure got big plans....' 'Stop the truck.'" #standupforfamily #myown

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"There was blood everywhere," Mom said, "but one kid in the hospital at a time is enough."
#badparenting
#notenoughmoney

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"i felt something sharp and painful between my shoulderbladesand turn around"
#ouch

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" Dad started laughing and hugging mom, who was laughing and hugging him. It was as if they were so happy they hadn't kill each other that they had fallen in love all over again. " #crazy #reallove #outofcontrol

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" 'I have a good feeling about this Christmas,' [...] [Dad] thrust the lighter into the Douglas fir. The dried out needles caught fire immediately.  #worstchristmas
#drunk
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"Instead of beds, we kids each slept in a big cardboard box, like the ones refrigerators got delivered in" #livinglavish #bestparentsever #neglect #cps #cps #cps

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"She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. 'Everyone has something good about them ,' she said."

#positivety
#loveeveryone

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"The whole family stretched out on the benches and the floor of the depot and read, with the dictionary in the middle of the room so we kids could look up words we didn’t know. Sometimes I discussed the definitions with Dad, and if we didn’t agree with what the dictionary writers said, we sat down and wrote a letter to the publishers."  #glasscastle #goodparenting

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"I felt the blaze of the heat on my right side. I turned and to see where it was coming from and realized my dress was on fire."
#unresponsiable #fire #unsafecooking #unsafe #badparenting

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“It got so cold in the house that icicles hung from the kitchen ceiling […] ‘Cold weather is good for you. It kills the germs.’”

#delusionaloptimism #alternatefacts

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"Lori was lurching around the living room, her eyebrows and bangs were singed off and the smell of burned hair in the air" #NOEyebrows #newtren