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I can relate to Gary in the sense that I only saw my dad on Sundays for a few hours every week as well, and he was pretty consistent with coming every week til I was like 11 when he moved on from me and my other 2 brothers to his girlfriend's kids.
There was this one time in particular though when my neighbor's dad asked me who I liked more, my mom or my dad (thinking back I wonder wtf kinda question is that to ask a child?), and I always felt guilty because I told him my dad, and my mom was by no means the greatest parent in the world (she left us when I was 14), but she was there most of the time up til that point when my dad could barely be there a whole day a week.
On a not quite related note, besides using a belt, my mom also used to wash our mouths out with soap and I still have an aversion to Ivory brand soap today because of it, I'm not sure I heard it mentioned anywhere so I'm curious, was that a thing that happened to anyone else?
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