Tonight my mom, my sister, and I watched the movie "The Prize Winner." It was about a mother in the late 50's with 10 children who wins lots of prizes and somehow keeps her family together with the prizes. The father is a fool, and alchoholic, and overall, just a jerk -he even took a 2nd mortage on the house and the only reason they didn't lose the house is 'cus the mother won a Dr. Pepper contest and so she sold the prizes. The thing is, the story/movie is true, it really happened. The mother, even when the father was swearing and drinking in the kitchen and the kids were in the living room trying to ignore him, the mother always acted as a saint and treated him kindly and covered up for him so that the kids felt a bit safer. The mother gave up everything for the kids (a budding career that was just beginning when she became pregnant) andonly once ever traveled more than 100 miles away from her hometown -even though she could have travelled the world.
Anywho, after the movie, I came back out to the living room to say g'night to my mom, only to find her crying in one th big, blue chairs. I hugged her and told her I loved her, and that if I had known the movie would have upset her so, I wouldn't have let her watch it. She said that she saw some of herself in that mom in "The Prize Winner" tonight.
I don't know if you remember or not, but my parents don't have a great marriage. To put it simply, they live with each other. They don't talk or laugh or enjoy each other's company, they simply happen to be in the same house. My mom happens to make him dinner and he happens to pay for the house -that's all. My mom says as soon as Mary graduates highschool, she's filing for divorce. My mom is so un...unfulfilled in her marriage. She had to have been in love at some point with my father though... What happened?
My mother has given her whole life and more to my sister and I. She has done everything and then some to get us the best educations, friends, experiences, travels, books, movies, music, camps, anything else she could think of that would be useful to us. She has barely any true friends and no one to hold her close at night. She's given everything in return for nothing. I love her so much.
My mother has given her whole life and more to my sister and I. She has done everything and then some to get us the best educations, friends, experiences, travels, books, movies, music, camps, anything else she could think of that would be useful to us. She has barely any true friends and no one to hold her close at night. She's given everything in return for nothing. I love her so much.
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My mom is Christian, but over the past years she has ... not incorporated it into her daily life. She has recently started having quiet times every morning, and I do believe that that's helping.
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