<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[No-Show at the Family&nbsp;Gatherings]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">He’s a, no-show at the family gatherings, because, he didn’t even, take us all, as his “family”, although, we’re, all related to him by blood!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">No-show at the family gatherings, because why BOTHER showing up, huh??? </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Showing up will only tense the originally, already growing more and more agitated atmosphere, so, why the F*** (maxed out???) would I want to make this already too unpleasant situation even MORE unpleasant? </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">So, count me O-U-T.</span></span></p>
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<p align="center"><em><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Who’s the invisible man behind the mother and son, I wonder</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">…</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">not my photo</span></span></em></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">No-show at the family gatherings, because I’m NO one’s family, I have NO family left, and, you still can’t blame me, for DISOWNING anybody here, they’re the ones who’d fucked me up so terribly when I was younger, and now, I’m old enough, and can damn well, stand on my own two feet, so, W-H-O needs them, huh? </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Besides, family are the ones who let you down over, over, over, over, AND over again, in my life experience…</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">So yeah, I’d, DISOWNED them all, but hey, I’d still, shown up at those god DAMN family gatherings on her side, ‘cuz, why the hell would I want to, turn down a “free meal”, right??? </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Yup!!!</span></span></p>
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