“I really did marry a wonderful young girl,” he
said of my mother just now—“just the right girl at the right time.” I like it when he says nice things about her.
It's funny how, although they have been divorced twenty years, they are still family. My stepfather is a part of it and so am I. That's the modern society. You can't ever get rid of a former spouse with whom you've had a child, it seems. Not just for the sake of the child, but also for the sake of the former spouse. Makes a person wonder... would anyone change you if you had to wear diapers again? Would anyone rub lotion on your gnarly, crackling feet? Now here's the kicker: would your ex-wife? Dad was right about that quote at the beginning. It's still true now.
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