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Subject: Re: Did you ever deserve it and NOT get it?


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Jim W to Sonya
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Date Posted: 02:23:50 01/11/25 Sat
In reply to: Sonya 's message, "Re: Did you ever deserve it and NOT get it?" on 21:51:30 01/10/25 Fri

Well, I've only been coming to this forum for a short while, and already there are a couple of stories I've shared multiple times. So no worries!

I don't think it was a matter of just us getting dirty, that time that we really got it. We got extremely dirty, muddy, and we did it in 1our school clothes. As for the other boys that one day, I don't know what the heck was with their father.

I didn't particularly like him anyway.

As for that dreaded phrase, I once said that to my own Mother! We were arguing about the dog. The dog was a very complicated subject for us. Legally it was her dog. She paid a great deal of money to have her bred. All of those dogs were the one thing she had, that was truly all hers.

She put a great deal of time and effort in those dogs.

The kennel was built for her, but it was in her husband's family's house. Us kids... we were very much taking after her husband's family. Her Mother-in-law, Father-in-law, and Brother-in-law all lived in the house. The money, that all came from her husband's family business.

The only thing that truly belonged to Mother were those dogs. But this one dog, the dog that won the most ribbons, the one that produced VERY expensive puppies, as far as I was concerned, she was mine.

She had slept in my bed ever since her eyes opened, whenever I was on the property, or at Best-Friend's house, she was near by. (Best-Friend's parents actually let her in their house. Anywhere else that would be unheard of!)

Most annoying of all to Mother, if she wanted the best performance from this dog, in any dog show, then I had to be the handler. This dog understood every word I said, And even understood me when I said nothing.

Further, I understood all of her gestures. I trained her, to perform the dog shows.

(That Day I spoke of, the one when we messed up our school clothes, the dog snubbed me and went home without me. I'm still convinced to this day, that was her way of telling me that she knew I was getting in trouble. She otherwise NEVER did that!)

So suffice to say that the the only real times mother and I ever argued, it was over the dog. To someone outside the family, to argue over a dog as ridiculous. It suggested that we just had just watched way too many episodes of Lassie.

But the dog meant so much to either of us.

And during one of these arguments I said it: "I hate you!"

Well when I saw the look on her face after I said that... Words cannot express how low I felt. She just walked away. She did not speak to me again for the rest of that day.

And yes, even the dog knew that I had done something terrible.

Just recently we passed the anniversary of Mother's death, and I miss her incredibly this time of the year. We did soon make up after that one argument. But there are some things you just can't take back.

I missed her incredibly when they sent me off to that school as well. I did love that dog incredibly, yes. But I should have realized that I loved her even more.

I hope that you still have your mother, I hope you still have a good relationship with her. Life goes by too fast for stupid arguments.

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Re: Did you ever deserve it and NOT get it?Sonya06:49:59 01/11/25 Sat


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