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When You Carry Your Father’s Wounds

By Bonnie Gray • June 21, 2012 • Comments Off on When You Carry Your Father’s Wounds

Some of us grow up — or end up — soaking up the wounds of those we love.   We may have found the inner strength in those moments to carry ourselves through.  But, there will come a time to remember.  There will come a time to heal.

I was standing in the toy store aisle.

Frozen.

I didn’t know what to do.

It was going to be our last visit together, after my parent’s divorce. But, I didn’t know it at the time.  I was a little girl.

My father wanted to buy me a toy. But, my mother didn’t want me to return home with one. I wasn’t supposed to take anything from him.

So, I told him I didn’t want anything.  I was okay.

But, I wasn’t.

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