Re: Sunday night supper

On Thu, 29 May 2025 14:26:45 +0000, flood of sins wrote:

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thanks! she's going on 41 years old. second marriage. she's
marrying her high school sweetheart. i loved having him around
when he was teen. now, he's an even better man. he treats her
like a princess. his first marriage ended in disaster.
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her first was a disaster too. she stuck with that mentally abusive
deadbeat dumbass way too long as his sugar mama. now he's living
at home leeching off his parents and sucking what's left of his
pathetic life out of crack pipe. the guy is literaly a 39 year
old child totally incapable of supporting himself. he's a drain
on those around him and a drain on society. he'd be doing us all
a favor if he, umm, i'll say ceased to exist.
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My sister-in-law married a guy that she picked up on the side of the
road. They got married after a couple of weeks. It was quite an
uncomfortable time when we stayed at their place back in the 70's. There
was fighting and physical abuse. He was prone to giving me goofy advice
on automobile repair, which I promptly ignored. He was quite shook-up
when his best buddy was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, by drug
dealers. He was into some really bad things - he was your typical bad
news kind of guy.
50 years later, my sister-in-law and husband have built a life for
themselves. They have a homestead with goats and chickens and even raise
bees. They have a lot of grand kids that adore them and have raised a
large number of kids as foster parents. My sister-in-law and her husband
were made to raise kids. When my wife's sister comes over, she brings me
a batch of fudge that her husband made. If you ask me, their story is an
amazing, unlikely, one - and the fudge is pretty good too.