I hate cemetery Sunday - I never go. There is something about people wandering about trying to remember just where their loved ones are buried - because they only come once a year, and not because they want to, but because they have to be seen to be there.
As for the family's treatment of your mum - there is just no excuse. That she has raised such an open-minded daughter is a credit to her. It really is their loss.
My mother refused to help out organising my wedding - my crime was marrying an athiest. He'd never even been christened. Unforgivable. I grew up in a town full bigotry, and plenty of it in my own family. It makes me so sad to read that you are all punished in such a cruel way, and all for love.
I grew up being taught 'love thy neighbour, so long as they are Catholic'.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2004-06-13 07:29 am (UTC)I hate cemetery Sunday - I never go. There is something about people wandering about trying to remember just where their loved ones are buried - because they only come once a year, and not because they want to, but because they have to be seen to be there.
As for the family's treatment of your mum - there is just no excuse. That she has raised such an open-minded daughter is a credit to her. It really is their loss.
My mother refused to help out organising my wedding - my crime was marrying an athiest. He'd never even been christened. Unforgivable. I grew up in a town full bigotry, and plenty of it in my own family. It makes me so sad to read that you are all punished in such a cruel way, and all for love.
I grew up being taught 'love thy neighbour, so long as they are Catholic'.
Their loss.
*hugs* to you all.