Barb’s Reviews > Wild Dark Shore > Status Update

Dad doesn't comeback to say goodbye. His means of survival was to get away, get as far away as possible and pretend none of it, and none of us, ever existed. To be honest, I understand that. He cut himself free so he would not be dragged under.

I suppose, woodenly, that my lack of sentimentality has turned out to be a good thing, that it was right, in the end, no t to keep anything of my mother's, and to tell myself it was because I wanted nothing from her or of her.

Look, at some point you have to choose your own life. We all separate from our parents.
That sounds cold even to me. I do t tell him that it's not his job to carry his family. It is his job because he has decided it is. I understand this maybe better than anyone. I think of the things I decided to carry, and how I made myself strong enough to do so.

I see his faults and I see what we lack. I can see that we fractured, and I know we both feel betrayed by the other. There is distance between us now and distance is like concrete cancer. With time it's fatal.