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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
I missed this somehow in our palindromic bantering PO, sorry!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about your mother. Taking care of eight children is really a full-time job! Do you think your mother ever felt that she could have done something else with her life, other than be a mother? Or did she feel it was a blessing for her to serve her family this way?
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I think she felt it was a blessing. Because she was Catholic, she wasn't allowed to marry a Baptist boy she really liked who later became a surgeon. My father was a cowboy, farmer, rancher, and her tastes and ideals were more citified than his.
My father and mother divorced after 25 years, that same man happened to be a widower. He wanted her to marry him and move to Louisiana. She turned him down because she wasn't going to leave her children behind in Texas. And who would leave Texas anyway? That would be really weird.
Anyway, I was engaged at 21 and decided to call off the wedding because I felt I would give everything to this guy who would later leave me for someone else after 25 years - like my father did. Seems I was right as he has been married 3 times.
Now he is alone on a ranch in South Texas still drinking his Jack Daniels. I empathize with Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings when they sang,
Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
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