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Chi town

While we were in Chicago the conversation turned to all of the negativity that my cousins and I grew up with. Its funny how kids have the innate ability to make the best of things. You make excuses for people and why they treat you the way they do. You think to yourself- "Oh I was bad, I should try harder." If you think about it, you get very little explanation or understanding as to why things are happening as children. This happens mostly out of the guise that you are too young to understand. Looking back, I think its worse to be in the dark with what is going on. All you know is that scary things are happening and you have to develop defense mechanisms to combat them- which is where my sarcasm came from.

Sorry if I am a little psychological today (it was my major you know). I was just thinking how amazingly resilient children are. You figure you just got to do what you got to do and just keep moving because there is no other option. And then one day you hear these stories pouring out of someone's mouth and realize that these stories are not just tales- they were your life. And then you wonder how in the heck did you get through that crap. But that's life. Getting through the crappy bits to get to the good stuff.

Thinking back reminds me of how much my cousins and my sister and I rock. We survived all that crap and are doing well. Two have graduated from college. My sister has a 4.0 in her junior year of college. One of us is going into college next year and the other is doing extremely well for herself. We did it- we survived our childhood...