Strange Tales from the Day-to-Day Life of a Sometimes Survivor...
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Chapeau (Shappo), Part 1.
This was a hard story to tell. I hope no one innocent is injured in any way by my telling it. I just should have told it sooner.
This is for my brother on his birthday.
Our house caught fire in the night while there were no adults at home. After that, my family had to move to a rough place near the cemetery while our new home was built.
I understand a lot more now. I have tried hard to puzzle things out from her perspective as well, as best i can of course. I have thought about postpartum depression, about the kinds of things doctors prescribed back then, about her own past and mental health issues, about her state of living and state of mind in general and i am able to feel sorry for all of that, and still none of it makes any of this ok. and it's not just her either. but mothers aren't supposed to abandon or hurt their children. NO one is. But especially mothers.
- continued in part 2...
This is for my brother on his birthday.
Our house caught fire in the night while there were no adults at home. After that, my family had to move to a rough place near the cemetery while our new home was built.
I understand a lot more now. I have tried hard to puzzle things out from her perspective as well, as best i can of course. I have thought about postpartum depression, about the kinds of things doctors prescribed back then, about her own past and mental health issues, about her state of living and state of mind in general and i am able to feel sorry for all of that, and still none of it makes any of this ok. and it's not just her either. but mothers aren't supposed to abandon or hurt their children. NO one is. But especially mothers.
- continued in part 2...
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