by Them Before Us | Sep 26, 2023 | Stories
(Originally published on MadMommaBear Blog) From a Guest Author, a letter shared from a son to an absent father about the experience of losing a father: Hello, I am fine. Sorry I haven’t reached out to you in a while. I’m doing very well in school; I have a 4.0 GPA....
by Them Before Us | Jun 27, 2021 | Stories |
My parents were separated before I was even born and they got officially divorced when I was 1. My mom started dating women after that…and she also cut her hair very short and dressed kind of manly. My dad went to prison twice when I was younger for possession...
by Them Before Us | Jan 29, 2020 | Stories |
Twenty one years ago I lost my father. The hardest part of losing him is that he didn’t die. One day he walked out the door and never returned. Sometimes I allow myself to imagine how much easier it would have been if he had died. My grief would have welled to the...
by Them Before Us | Jun 3, 2019 | Stories |
My parents were married in their early twenties as a lot of couples typically do. I was born a couple years later in 1976. I grew up knowing the love of my mother and father in a normal household. I was particularly close to my father as a lot of young girls are. They...
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by Them Before Us | Nov 28, 2018 | Stories |
My parents were allegedly a common law marriage, but the state they lived in didn’t recognize common law marriage at the time, so far as I can tell. They were hippies, my father was a drunk and a junkie, my mother left him when I was 2 and my brother 4. My...
