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“I am so proud” you wrote “of my intelligent, hardworking, engaging and lovely… niece.” Not daughter. Niece. Yes, she is all those things, but just once when I do something important would it be so hard to acknowledge it? But no, that would be asking too much. The only thing that remains is for me to be angry. Not with you, with myself, for actually being surprised that it was her title after those adjectives and not mine.
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 9:27 PM UTC
Dear Father,
“I am so proud” you wrote “of my intelligent, hardworking, engaging and lovely… niece.” Not daughter. Niece. Yes, she is all those things, but just once when I do something important would it be so hard to acknowledge it? But no, that would be asking too much. The only thing that remains is for me to be angry. Not with you, with myself, for actually being surprised that it was her title after those adjectives and not mine.
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 9:27 PM UTC
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