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Casey Affleck, changes
Jun. 22nd, 2017 12:53 amEven knowing everything, I kept in loose touch with my family. My parents are at the age they need to move to assisted living.
In another time, another place, I'd have stayed and been their caregiver. In another time, another place, I'd be moving back in with them.
But it isn't happening. Because of too many things, water under the bridge that still holds pain.
They didn't ask. I'm grateful for that.
Perhaps, too, just the smallest bit guilty that I feel glad. But just the smallest bit.
Which only tells me that everything, no matter how painful, happens for the right reasons.
In another time, another place, I'd have stayed and been their caregiver. In another time, another place, I'd be moving back in with them.
But it isn't happening. Because of too many things, water under the bridge that still holds pain.
They didn't ask. I'm grateful for that.
Perhaps, too, just the smallest bit guilty that I feel glad. But just the smallest bit.
Which only tells me that everything, no matter how painful, happens for the right reasons.
