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Paddy Gets A Wake Up Visit Part Three
Date: 8/2/2016, Categories: Mature, Author: WobieTide, Rating: 1, Source: LushStories
group and I was glad to see they had some form of supportive framework in which to conduct their daily lives. I particularly recalled, as I stood by my wife's graveside after they'd gone, the heated argument that had ensued between her and Oonagh when our daughter informed us that she was leaving her husband of two years to move in with her 'girlfriend'. Martha had been vociferous in her condemnation of Oonagh for abandoning the church and sanctity of marriage for such a grossly indecent, depraved and disgusting lifestyle. I remembered remaining stoically, silently entrenched in my wife's camp as Oonagh looked to me for some sign of understanding, of compassion. A sign I couldn't deliver because, quite frankly, I didn't understand my daughter's position at the time and compassion was an emotion I struggled to receiver or deliver, but I knew where my loyalties must lie, with my wife and the teaching's of her church, our church. On the day of my wife's internment, I accepted the envelope as graciously as possible, but couldn't bring myself to converse with my daughter because of the betrayal of my dearly departed Martha such a conversation would imply. Still, I did accept the cards, kept them in a little wallet in a drawer, had them on that restless night and still have them to this day. I must have eventually drifted off to sleep because the next thing I remembered was awakening, in my rumpled clothes, on the unmade bed and thinking 'I'm late for mass'. The ambient light and ...