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You gotta laugh, or you'll cry.

I finally " came clean " with my Mom. She wants me to drive down to

L.A. to clean out her garage (haven't even done my own in 11

years!!).

Problem is, whenever we are together, she thinks it's party time.

Tons of food and alcohol and sitting aroung talking (in other words,

not moving, just stuffing ourselves).

I finally told her a couple of days ago that I Would come help her,

but I can't do the food and alcohol thing. It's just too much for me.

Surprisingly she agreed. I don't know why I wasn't honest with her

earlier instead of suffering through the visits and building

resentments.

Hmmm. Maybe, just maybe, I had a part in this.

Vicki

> Stacey, I'll see your evil stepmother and raise you...an actual,

> biological mother. When I'd lost over 100 lbs., I had a call from

my

> mother's doctor, who basically told me that if I wanted to see Mum

> before she expired from the effects of her lifelong alcoholism, I

> should get my tushie out to the west coast tout de suite. I boarded

a

> plane the next day.

>

> Walked into Mum's hospital room, where she was sitting in a chair,

> actually looking quite chipper for someone who was about to die.

She

> greeted me with a smile, but (and this still amazes me!) said NOT A

> SINGLE WORD about my weight loss. My dear aunt, Mum's younger

sister,

> said, " Shirley, doesn't look great? " Mum looked me up and

down

> with her usual critical eye, and said, " I suppose so. "

>

> Stacey, I think there are people in our lives who, for whatever

reason,

> just cannot accommodate the idea that anyone else has achieved

anything

> significant. My mother was always one of those people. She shut

herself

> off from people in the last year of her life, and when she did die

> (about 10 days after my arrival), the only people who showed up at

her

> memorial gathering came because they'd known my father. Mum died as

she

> lived: a bitter, sad shell of a person. I can't say anything about

your

> stepmother since I don't know her, but I can tell you that I have

come

> to feel sad for people who just can't seem to extend themselves

beyond

> their own insecurities. It's no way to live.

>

> Sometimes all you can do is laugh, huh?

>

> Be well...

>

>

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