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Benedict Arnold

At what age did you hang up your childhood wings, trading flights of fancy and a head in the clouds for feet planted firmly on the ground?

Posted - January 29, 2020
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  • 5391
    About the time my deadbeat drunk of a broke ass loser old man officially abandoned my sisters and I to the whims of fate, and our brainless neurotic shrew of a mother. I was 11.  
      January 29, 2020 8:49 PM MST
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  • 1152
    Not that you're bitter about it or anything...

    In all seriousness, it is a shame your parents were not up to snuff. I wonder if there's any way to calculate how much the world loses in human potential due to poor parenting...
      January 29, 2020 8:52 PM MST
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  • 5391

    You are more right than you might think. There was a time as a juvenile when the bitterness was all-consuming. It drove me to not repeat the cycle. Then, with the help of a great man, I gained a university scholarship, and rose above their station. Never looked back after that. 

     

    I doubt there exists an effective method of quantifying the human toll of failed or inept parenting, but my hunch is what we‘d find would be alarmingly sad.

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at January 29, 2020 9:46 PM MST
      January 29, 2020 9:40 PM MST
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  • 783
    I’m 30 and I still haven’t reached that point yet. 
      January 29, 2020 8:58 PM MST
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  • 10664
    I'll let you know when (if ) I get that old.
      January 29, 2020 10:03 PM MST
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