You Crazy Bitch ! Shut The Fuck Up !

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“You crazy bitch! Shut the fuck up!” If I had a dime for every time I’d heard those very words ushered from my step-father’s lips, I would’ve been able to run away to live in Seattle long ago, with more than adequate finances to live off of. But his demand wasn’t directed at me; at least not this time.
“I’m crazy?” My mother’s tone was one of fervent disbelief. “I’m not the one acting like an asshole and wrecking the trip for everyone just because it took us longer to find a camp spot than we’d expected! You always do this Peter!” She waved her arms about to add emphasis as she screamed at him. “It’s not my fault all the other spots were already taken by the time we got up here. It’s not the kids’ fault either, and yet here you are making all of us miserable for it! Plans change, shit happens, but instead of dealing with it calmly like the rest of us, you have to blow up and start a fight with the first person that does anything to piss you off! You’re ruining everyone’s Fourth of July weekend and you’re acting like an overgrown child!” She continued to yell at him as he stalked around, angrily throwing our camping supplies on the ground, his face contorted into a hateful expression. From where I stood I could hear the distinct noise of glass breaking as he forcefully threw another bag onto the ground.
For the most part he stayed lividly silent, but every so often he would revert into his normal self by yelling out an angry reply of “fuck you!” Occasionally he would make use of the other various swear words that dominated his vocabulary. My mom was right and he knew it, so he didn’t have anything else better to say in retaliation.
I couldn’t remember the last time there had been a few consecutive days of pe...

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...e if my biological father had stuck around.
That night I stayed up alone and tended to the fire until the early hours of the morning. My mind was reeling with all sorts of thoughts and memories past and present. I wondered if his childhood had made him the way he is now. Then I quickly decided it didn’t matter what his parents had been like, or what his childhood had been like. The only person that makes you act a certain way is yourself. No matter how hard it may be, you are in complete control of your own actions. We can 't choose the family we were born to, but we can choose to be better people than them. We can choose not to treat our own children the same way our parents treated us. We can learn from their numerous mistakes to better ourselves, not only as parents but as human beings. And that was exactly what I was going to do.

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