My mother is still here – thank goodness! My father passed away in January.
On the lighter note of this question – over the weekend, I was at my mother’s house and the hall bathroom toilet overflowed. I have an Aunt that has down’s syndrome and tends to over stuff the toilet, at times. After I turned off the water valve, I started on the hunt for the plunger, while gathering things to clean up the mess. I couldn’t find that damn thing anywhere! I looked everywhere. My husband was looking and couldn’t find it either. I was so annoyed, I stopped in the middle of the hallway and yelled out, “Dad! Where in the hell did you put the plunger! Normal people keep it close to a bathroom! Where is it?”
In unison, my husband and daughter just started laughing , my mother walked in – they explained it to her, she laughed too.
The plunger was in the garage…very far away from the bathrooms.
I can say that he didn’t leave me with questions. Wonderful memories, but no questions – at least not right now.
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My ‘biological’ father – not the dad I was talking about above he raised me, my step dad raised me, I would ask him if he truly loved my sister and I. I’ve heard so many mixed stories about him. I hear he loved both of us and then someone tells me he loved me, not my sister. I just want to know that he loved both of us. For my mother, I would ask him why he treated her so poorly. Her biggest crime, she loved him. In return, he treated her poorly. I just want to know why. my biological father was murdered when I was a young child, I have very few memories of him, just a lot of stories and some very ugly stories.