Reflection On Thanksgiving

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Really, Lisa? We now are tied by blood only? Your words are contradictory and you have a short memory.

This email is more hurtful than the last. Money does not provide me love although the irony is you might be nicer to me if I had given it to you and you might have answered my phone calls.

You can bring everything to Mom's on Thanksgiving since you say you are in a good place. The truth is I am not but you wouldn't know that because "we don't know each other very well." I was not planning on being at Mom's as early as 1 p.m. and I don't have any reason to change that.

And, as for you not showing up on Christmas Eve, well, that speaks for itself.

Vinnie Mulreed told me in September of 2014 that I should rebuild my life and look

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