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My Father Is a Gentle Man, Always in the Shadow
I worry that the reason we could never get on was that we were far too much alike. Maybe that's why I stayed with Lawrence through two affairs, as if accepting that I'd made a mistake would be letting her win. In the end, I only left him when he was jailed for embezzlement eight years into our marriage. It wasn't until my father had his accident that I finally decided to try and reconnect with my parents. Beyond the graying of her hair, my mother hadn't changed - she still didn't like me. But I could always see on my father's face how much he liked to see me so I persevered.