Put A Number On Things You Would Like To Wash From Your Memory- Limit Ten

[fmdog44]

My brother and his wife.
The next door neighbors on one side growing up.
The town I grew up in.
A friend's death on my high school prom night.
Buying a motor cycle when I was too young to ride it.
A few episodes with my distant but ok relationship with my dad.
Hurting one woman in my life that I simply could not commit to.
The dog we had when I was a kid could not be trained to do anything so it was more pain than pleasure.
Not leaving my home town much earlier than I did.
Poor choices of some friends during high school.

 

[Aunt Marg]

- The pain and suffering my mom went through when she was dying. I never cried so hard and for so long, and the old saying, "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger", well that's a lie, because it didn't make me stronger, it made me more bitter.

- The loss of a lifelong friend (my grad year). I never in my wildest dreams would have guessed that some 40 years after the fact, it would still haunt me as it did the night I got the bad news.