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My mother who abandoned us in the middle of the night came back after 16 years and it's killing me inside that my 17 year old brother and father are too forgiving towards her and it makes me resentful towards my own brother and father.

So my mother and father were high school sweethearts who got pregnant at the very early age of 17 and had me a month after their prom.

We lived in a rural place it's not big enough to be called a town but still larger than your average village.

Anyways they sent it to a farmer's life after graduating and had my brother seven years later and then my mother left us when my brother was only a month and a half old.

To this day I can still remember waking up to get ready for school and finding my father on the ground kneeling over and crying holding one of my notebooks.

I was just a seven year old kid at the time and seeing my father curled up like that made me cry too and that's when my father got a hold of his emotions and righted himself to pick me up.

In my mother's hurry to leave she literally took a notebook from my school bag and wrote her half-ast excuse to why she was leaving us.

How she never wanted kids how she shouldn't have gotten pregnant and how things should have turned out differently and how this small town was smothering her.

She had to get away because my little brother was like a news that wouldn't let her breathe.

I learned what she wrote in that notebook a year or so later when I found it in the drawers.

When she left she took our truck and had someone deliver us a truck a month or so later without even sending a word or anything.

Just some guy came and said here's your truck. My father was a mess afterwards.

He didn't take care of the farm. He stopped eating and he started drinking because of that.

I had to stop going to school to take care of my brother.

Meanwhile my aunt, my mom's sister finally made my dad bounce back and you could see he was sad for a lot of years afterwards.

And still, even a decade later he would get all withdrawn around the anniversary of her departure.

So my life was that I'd come back from school, do the dishes left over from breakfast and take care of my brother until he was a few years older.

It was in that way that I slowly became the woman of the house, so to speak.

I took the food, do the dishes and take care of my brother after school and my father would spend nearly all of his waking hours trying to manage the farm.

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