<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Whole Family Is Dysfunctional</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>I haven’t spoken to my brother in ten years. <br>His brain was slammed in a car accident, <br>never got any therapy because dad didn’t believe in it. <br>Somehow he came into some money <br>and spent it on surplus military vehicles, <br>which he leases to Hollywood from time to time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>When my dad’s appendix burst, he didn’t know it, <br>tried to kill the pain with bourbon, <br>finally phoning me in delirious distress<br>and I called the ambulance.<br>My sister wouldn’t let the paramedics in.<br>The police came with a megaphone, <br>busted down the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>I hadn’t spoken to my alcoholic mother in 13 years<br>when a stranger called and said she was dying. <br>I flew to Chicago and spent the afternoon <br>at her comatose side telling her body <br>what I’d been doing for the last 13 years.<br>She died the next afternoon <br>while I was out getting a sandwich.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Philips">Michael Philips</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565905" data-title="My Whole Family Is Dysfunctional de Michael Philips" data-description="I. I haven’t spoken to my brother in ten years. His brain was slammed in a car accident, never got any therapy because dad didn’t believe in it. Somehow he came into some money and spent it on surplus military vehicles, which he leases to..."></div> </div> </div>

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