-Kevin
>Today my Dad called me around 5:30 AM wanting to know if I wanted a ride
>to work. Considering I usually take the Metro and actually get there
>faster this way, I knew something had to be up.
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>There is. My Mom left my Dad a few years back right after he had a heart
>attack and a stroke. She finally filed for divorce.
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>My Dad is probably one of the best people you would ever want to meet.
>He has this strange ability to be optimistic even in the worst of times,
>he has always been true to his family and a hard worker. He convinced me
>to college after high school, when I was having these weird feelings
>about formal education being a sham, and that has made all the
>difference in my adult life. He is willing to take on enormous burdens
>in order to make other people's lives better, which always flew in the
>face of the material concerns held by the people around us growing up.
>He could have been rich, but he decided to enrich the lives of others
>instead, and I have enormous respect for him as a person.
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>Anyways, now my mother wants to take away the house he spent his whole
>life working for. The one my daughter goes over to when she wants to
>spend time with her granddad. The one I grew up in. She wants it sold.
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>Sometimes, it seems like the good people in this world do not win. Ever.
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