If I had played the hand I was dealt, I honestly wouldn't have made it past 30.
Not to upstage any of y'all,lolol, but so long as we are playing "True Confessions" MY parental updragging included a mother who, - drank hard and smoked throughout her entire pregnancy with me and gave birth to me while hungover from gin martinis, would stand over an ironing board for the majority of the day and then blame us for "having" to do so (?). Which would culminate in a humdinger of an evening drinking until passing out with a smoke in her hand, all whilst talking to some sort a "dark demon" into the air. This "demon" she just confessed to me a few weeks ago, has followed her since her parents died and orphaned her at 12.
And, it's been popping up again while in the nursing home. Black cloak and hood and all.
No wonder I couldn't ever sleep when I was a child.
I just re read this and scared myself. Good god.
Truth. Stranger than fiction any damn day.