"I may have made it sound easier than it really was. If my father is the fighter in the family, then my mother is the lover. It was not shared interests that brought them together. It was something tangible yes, but not that. And I spent most of my childhood trying to make two very different sets of expectations work in conjunction with one another."
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Date: 2006-03-09 07:11 am (UTC)"I may have made it sound easier than it really was. If my father is the fighter in the family, then my mother is the lover. It was not shared interests that brought them together. It was something tangible yes, but not that. And I spent most of my childhood trying to make two very different sets of expectations work in conjunction with one another."