the divorce I just remember my mother and father being married, and then after that being with

my father only on the weekends. Well, it continued on that way until my father finally met

someone and re-married when I was in the second grade. I got to know his new wife, and I

really liked her. We got along great and eventually I started calling her mom. The summer before

I started third grade I had been spending a lot of time with my father and my new mother and had

decided that I wanted to live with them. Not thinking of my mothers feelings I told her that I

wanted to live with my father and she agreed, but I am sure that it must have hurt her. So I

started my third grade year at Albion elementary, living with my father and step-mother.

Everything was great, I like the school, made many friends, and enjoyed being with my f

my step mother home alone during the week. The first few weeks were fine, but then it was like

I went back to New Haven and started back to school there and finished my fifth grade

that his wicked wife had kept him away from me. After eighth grade I went to see him again my

back to that house after that not for the weekend or anything.

My father had started working second shift, and I would only see him on Saturday

periodically to say hello, how are you and keep him updated on how I have been. The last time I

this time. Needless to say, they did not come to my graduation. But since then I have called him

year. My father had not spoken to me since until I went over there my eighth grade year, to see

different about the phone conversation is that for the first time since I was in fifth grade my father

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