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Shelly Gonzalez
Professor Lindemann
English 1301
July 10, 2003



It’s hard to remember what it was like to have my mother and father in the same

room for than five minutes. My parents have been divorced for eight years now. If you

asked anyone who knew them they would probably say it had been over for many years

before that. My mother would go further and just say, “Man, he’s been an ass to me right

from the start.cheated on, lied to, taken for granted, and it’s always just been me and the

kids wherever we go. He’s never around, that piece of shit!”

She was the one who was perpetually let down, and she sure let my father know

with who, with what, when, where at, and why he was a disappointment to her. It was

just about the only kind of interaction she enjoyed with him. My mother: a very strong,

loud, hotheaded. I mean red-headed, scary (to some people), doesn’t put up with ...