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[caughtthebullet]

It's a matter of public record that by seventeen both my parents were dead.

It should be sadder than it sounds but it isn't.

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[chosered.livejournal.com]

Why isn't it as sad as it sounds?

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

I barely knew them.

[chosered.livejournal.com]

Didn't they raise you?

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

They provided me with basic means.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it should be sadder than it sounds, but I can rather understand why it wouldn't be.

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

Is that empathy?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

No, just understanding--or something like it.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

It does not sound sad.

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

I could say good but that might be rude.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Perhaps.

[idmakeitaweek.livejournal.com]

Isn't everything in the lives of men like us a matter of public record?

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

Would that include your parentage?

[idmakeitaweek.livejournal.com]

My parents were in the media long before I was born.

[prefers-chess.livejournal.com]

Why? Are you implying that the public record is unreliable?

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

The public record is a fact. It's the media who's unreliable, most of the time.

[prefers-chess.livejournal.com]

And did the media find it sadder than it sounds?

[justdoingmyjob.livejournal.com]

Any reason you're telling us about it?

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

A curse I imagine.

[justdoingmyjob.livejournal.com]

Right.

[ taking a moment, scanning the network...which he should probably be more up on considering a warning he got recently about Leaving ]

Should've checked before I asked. Sorry.

[perspectiveguy.livejournal.com]

You seem like a strong person.

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

Do I?

[perspectiveguy.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it?

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Isn't that a matter of interpretation?

How sad it sounds.

[caughtthebullet.livejournal.com]

It is. What would yours be?

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I think sad might not be the word, but anyone not affected by the death of a parent either didn't know them or doesn't know themselves.