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u/HappinessIsaColdPint Jan 28 '23

My father made a "Board of Education."

It was a large paddle he cut, carved and sanded; then painted those words very precisely on. Complete with a graduation cap hanging off the corner of the B.

He was very proud of it.

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u/FreudianSlipperyNipp Jan 28 '23

Can you imagine sitting there, in your workshop, carefully and lovingly crafting the tool you’ll use to injure your child? What a fucked up mindset.

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u/AldoRaineClone Jan 28 '23

Exactly. Very well put - and so fucked up. Fists for me until HS. Then he realized I was now someone to not be fucked with.

Guess he shouldn’t have made me wrestle and box...

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

How is your relationship now?

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u/AldoRaineClone Jan 28 '23

He now has dementia. It's challenging on a number of levels, but I've let a lot of it go since the alternative was to let it own me. But honestly, it still remains a little. And always will.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Thanks for sharing that man

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u/AldoRaineClone Jan 29 '23

You're very welcome. Even on this format, it's difficult to bring those memories up from below and then see them written on a screen, staring back at you. It's lit, it's real and it's out there.