I agree jjjjbo and dm383! I KNOW that most people have some sort of dysfunction in their family. I am not ashamed of my life. As a matter of fact I am rather proud of the fact that I could rise above some of the secrets and sorrow and pain I grew up with. Looking back there is maybe only one or two things I would change about my life if I could. And they are deeper than what I posted but suffice it to say that for the most part I am a better person for having had to strive to make it when "it" never seemed possible. I figure it this way...........if my life hadn't taken the course it did from the beginning I wouldn't be the person I am today. And I love myself today. I am a very generous, loving, attentive, wanton, sexual, casual, caring, helpful, earthy, happy person. And that's not such a bad thing. All that I am I owe to my parents and siblings. Even if they are the nuttiest people I know! They had their good points too. I just didn't talk of those here.

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