Tam

I tried to make peace with him in 1998 and he was fine for a little while and then he got drunk one night and got pissed off about not being able to find his remote control and went after my son, who was 6 at the time.... that was the last time I ever seen him and told him then I'd rather my children not have a grandfather than to have him as one and never seen or heard from him again. I told him he'd die a lonely bitter old man and with any luck he'd do it in a way in which he lived his life. In 2007, he passed away from Gall Bladder and Colon Cancer. My family won't speak to me to this day because I didn't suck it up and go and see him. I sent him a Peace Lily and told him I forgive him and that was that. I made a peace with it myself, but I didn't want to see him or have my kids around him still. He died a very bitter old man. I guess that sounds bad of me, but I hold no hatred for him now, just happy he isn't going to be causing my children any further harm. It was what it was and I am ok with it....... but when I see something like this, it just makes me sad, for the victims of these kind of people and animals that cannot get away from their abusers.

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