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What is your worst memory as a child?

My father disappeared when I was six.

Posted - January 25, 2017
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  • 3375
    That would break my heart in pieces.  I wonder if you have anyway of ever tracking him down.  I hope he had a better life after all that.  So sad.
      January 27, 2017 3:50 PM MST
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  • 5451
    I never saw him again because his foster family was on the other side of the state but we were allowed to e-mail each other.  He was happy with his foster family.
      January 28, 2017 8:36 AM MST
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  • 3375
    Thank goodness you had that much.  I am glad he had a relatively happy ending and you got to know about that.
      January 28, 2017 11:07 AM MST
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  • 1713
    That's awful! I feel so bad for that poor kid. I hope he's doing well now.
      January 27, 2017 6:58 PM MST
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  • 5451
    I lost contact with him so I don't know what he's up to now.  He most likely has some leftover emotional scars.  I don't know how he could not.

    While nobody in my family was ever abused the ones that grew up with strict parents or ones that had a lot of stupid or silly rules don't have good relationships with them as adults.
      January 28, 2017 8:41 AM MST
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  • 5808
    as a kid going hunting with my dad
    I shot a rabbit with a small gauge 
    shot gun.
    the rabbit just froze for a few seconds
    strangest look he gave me
    then fell over
    dropped the gun and cried
    but we ate him.
      January 25, 2017 6:19 PM MST
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  • I hit a little blue bird with a BB rifle when I was little.
    It fell over and onto our yard.
    I picked it up and set it on a brick.
    It was just there with its beak open. Then it stretched it legs real long and died.
    I've never killed anything again.
    Besides mosquitos and roaches. I kill those.
      January 25, 2017 8:50 PM MST
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  • My father bellowing, raging, BASHING the table, cocking his fist, making threatening gestures with a steak knife, faulting finding, dominating.  I would have clapped, laughed, danced and praised the day if he had disappeared.
      January 25, 2017 7:01 PM MST
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  • Your story touches me especially. Because of my own memories and the fear I inflicted on my own when they were little.
    It sucks to.see the.effect that has.on others.

      January 25, 2017 8:53 PM MST
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  • It has poisoned my entire life.
      January 25, 2017 9:37 PM MST
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  • Im sorry to hear that W.
    I wish I could say something smart or wise that would make it go.away, but I got nothing.
    I suppose all we can do is not being that way ourselves. 
    Or at least honestly try.

      January 25, 2017 9:50 PM MST
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  • 1713
    A freak doing freakish things to me. I'd rather not go into detail.
      January 25, 2017 7:30 PM MST
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  • 3375
    So unfair.  I'm sorry.
      January 27, 2017 3:44 PM MST
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  • 1713
    Yeah and people think I'm a weird freak because I don't like being touched in any way and the idea of a relationship grosses me out. If only they knew, they wouldn't be so judgemental about it..I hope..
      January 27, 2017 7:20 PM MST
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  • 3191
    Even without details, your story is heart wrenching...mine goes out to you, Patchouli. This post was edited by Bozette at January 28, 2017 5:50 AM MST
      January 27, 2017 7:45 PM MST
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  • 3375
    Not weird at all my friend.  You learned to survive something that no child (or young adult) should ever have to endure.
      January 27, 2017 8:13 PM MST
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  • 2327
    Falling in a swimming pool when I was a toddler. Not knowing how to swim. I'm very lucky somebody saw me fall in and he got me out. One of my earliest memories. 

    Sorry to hear about yours, Element. I hope it doesn't hurt you to read this, but Perhaps it was for the better that he wasn't in your life, if that was the kind of guy he was. 
      January 25, 2017 8:54 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i also almost drowned as a kid when i was at the beach
      January 25, 2017 10:44 PM MST
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  • 3375
    Had a similar experience.  I was an adult though and it was very frightening.  I probably wept for an hour afterwards with all the adrenaline that was in my system.

    I still love the beach and taking on big waves though.
      January 27, 2017 3:43 PM MST
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  • poverty and helplessness
      January 25, 2017 11:39 PM MST
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  • 3375
    It must make you appreciate everything you have now.  
      January 27, 2017 3:43 PM MST
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  • Yeah, that one sucks.
      January 27, 2017 3:56 PM MST
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  • 3375
    Things I won't talk about here.  Let's just say I have walked many miles to get where I am now.  
      January 27, 2017 2:55 PM MST
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  • 3191
    (((Hugs)))
      January 27, 2017 3:02 PM MST
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  • 3375
    Thank-you.  
      January 27, 2017 3:41 PM MST
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