i don't understand how some college graduates can be the same immature, inconsiderate, insensitve, irresponsible, selfish individuals they were the day they entered high school. where is the personal growth? i want us to all be on the same plane--but how do i tell them to stop stepping on my toes? 

cut them slack, cut them slack--cut the cord--and i'm not talking about the umbilical cord.

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my biological father, the one who divorced my mother when my brother and i were about 5 with no child support ever, called and wants to see me. i refused--where was he when we needed him? he gave me a sob story about being old and alone, asking for a little time from me. Time? He had all the time in the world when we were growing up. Your mom has lied to you, he says without feeling, as if it were a fact. Come talk to me and I'll tell you everything, the truth. A lonely, old man--even his second wife and her child, won in a green card marriage has abandoned him. Perhaps cruel to leave him so, but my sympathy and patience have worn thin over the years as he badmouthed my mom with each of his random, infrequent visits--a weak attempt to turn us against her, our everlasting guardian. I feel nothing against him, only annoyance of having to deal with him, to give him minutes of my life, when he had a chance at years--no, i've lost respect for him.