Anagaharad
01-03-2009, 08:42 PM
Yeah, so I'm in the bookstore today and I see an older white haired man. I walk up to him and say "Are you Ivan Detwiler?"
He looks at me for a second and says "You are my granddaughter" and hugs me and starts crying.
This is incredibly odd as I've not seen nor heard from my grandfather in 10 years and the last I knew, he was living in Florida. Turns out, he is broke, divorced, and living with his sister not 10 blocks from my apartment.
We exchanged phone numbers and he wants to have dinner together and catch up.
My mom warns me not to get too emotionally involved as my grandfather is an incurable ass (my words, paraphrasing hers for ease of typing).
He is 82 years old. Maybe he wants to set things right before he passes on? Should I even give him the chance?
When my parents separated, my father's side of the family basically cut off contact with my siblings and I which was surprising as we are the ONLY 3 children in the entire family. I have no cousins and even my Grandparent's brothers and sisters have no children.
When my father ran off and left my mother with a mountain of bad debt and we lost everything (house, cars, etc etc) not a single family member stepped in. I cannot imagine that no one knew what was going on. We basically were left to be thrown onto the street. Luckily my mom found someone who was willing to rent to her while she was getting dragged through bankruptcy and I had saved up enough money to buy a car to loan to my mother until she was able to get her own. I was 17yrs old at the time.
Back to the present: what is you people's opinion?
He looks at me for a second and says "You are my granddaughter" and hugs me and starts crying.
This is incredibly odd as I've not seen nor heard from my grandfather in 10 years and the last I knew, he was living in Florida. Turns out, he is broke, divorced, and living with his sister not 10 blocks from my apartment.
We exchanged phone numbers and he wants to have dinner together and catch up.
My mom warns me not to get too emotionally involved as my grandfather is an incurable ass (my words, paraphrasing hers for ease of typing).
He is 82 years old. Maybe he wants to set things right before he passes on? Should I even give him the chance?
When my parents separated, my father's side of the family basically cut off contact with my siblings and I which was surprising as we are the ONLY 3 children in the entire family. I have no cousins and even my Grandparent's brothers and sisters have no children.
When my father ran off and left my mother with a mountain of bad debt and we lost everything (house, cars, etc etc) not a single family member stepped in. I cannot imagine that no one knew what was going on. We basically were left to be thrown onto the street. Luckily my mom found someone who was willing to rent to her while she was getting dragged through bankruptcy and I had saved up enough money to buy a car to loan to my mother until she was able to get her own. I was 17yrs old at the time.
Back to the present: what is you people's opinion?