My father’s gay marriage

[mahatmakanejeeves]

No, not my father. That's the title of an article that was in the WaPo yesterday.

My father’s gay marriage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/my-fathers-gay-marriage/2013/04/05/58e88fda-9c97-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_story.html

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In 1930, when he was 12, my dad was caught in bed with another boy at his New England prep school and sent home. My enraged grandfather hired a psychologist to straighten him out. The psychologist proclaimed that my grandmother’s extravagant love of her eldest child, and my grandfather’s harsh discipline, were responsible for Dad’s sexual confusion. He pronounced the cure: that my father leave home.

So at the age of 12, he was exiled by his family to board at schools and summer camps and spent the rest of his life on the run. After my mother married my father, she and we four children trailed along after him, ever faster; by the time I left home for school at 17, we had lived in 20 cities, countless hotels and rented houses and on three continents. We might as well have been criminals.

[William769]

1. Unfortunately stories like that have been all to common.

[Rowdyboy]

2. Absolutely heartbreaking....

I can empathize more than I would like to

[xchrom]

3. du rec. nt