re: #48 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)

I lost both in my parents when I was a young adult but we never talked about who either one was voting for, that was a personal matter.

Funny how things that once were hidden now become defining.

It all came out when I was dating my first girlfriend. My dad told me the whole story about how his mom wasn’t allowed to come to his wedding and she sent someone to represent the family in her stead, and how she regretted that decision up until the day my dad introduced her to my mom’s family and brought her into the fold (I don’t know when that happened, presumably before I was born). My dad was telling me all this so that I would feel comfortable choosing the right woman, even if he or my mom didn’t approve, because the same thing happened to him when he was a college-age student deeply in love with a woman his parents didn’t approve of. It profoundly reshaped my understanding of my parents and grandparents, and despite the fact that they are all complete fucking wingnuts, I can’t help but respect them for it.