mom says that unhappy relationships run in the family. it's in our blood.
uncle 1,2,3 are divorced; aunt 1 is divorced and aunt 3 is dead, although i might be as bold to write that if she had lived, she would have inevitably ended up a divorcee. so aunt 2 is the only one of her siblings still married. happily though? who knows.
sis is twice divorced, and she is only 30.
mom is divorced too.
i'd be divorced too, if it weren't for the miserable failure of the separation of church and state. but effectively i am.
we had dinner yesterday- mom and i. i was desperate to change the topic from my failed relationship - so i chose the topic of mom's childhood. how she grew up was always unclear to me. this giant pile of disjointed nonsequential facts in my head. snippets mentioned here and there, but never in historial context. i sought organize them last night over a steak dinner (and mom's poor choice of bland noodles). i interviewed my mom.
and then i went to strand to pick up The Great Chinese Revolution 1900-1985 to put everything in that historical context. It seemed concise.
i'm going to write an essay soon.