Perspective

I was talking to my son's best friend's mother today. We were talking about our kids and I made a comment about her daughter being so tall and womanly. She then told me that the girl is actually her niece whom she has raised since the girl's father murdered her mother and another man. The girl witnessed the second murder. The dad is still in jail and demanding access to his daughter. The girl is now 13 and rebellious and, surprise! fucked up. Because the dad was aquitted of the charge of murdering their mother, the girl and her adult brother refuse to believe that he did. The brother has said that had his father been convicted of murdering his mother he would have killed himself.

This woman goes to court not only for access issues, but the case for the murder of her sister is being re-tried. The mother-killer wants his daughter to come stay with him in jail for a week because they have that sort of thing in his jail. His 13 year old, very developed, emotionally screwed daughter. In jail.

People sometimes say that my life is hard. It's painful and annoying. It's not hard.