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4mo ago

Wishes

Oh hey, it's my childhood

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Original that doesn't cut off the credit to the author
https://www.atrandomcomics.com/at-random-comics-home/2023/12/6/two-christmases
- Yoink
- Hmm that credit is kinda clashy huh, wonder if he’s redone it

Wait until she's married and her spouse's parents are divorced too and now she has 5 or 6 Christmases to go to and she's completely burned out on the holiday she once loved.
- That was me. Leave the house at 8 AM, get home after midnight, every place pressuring you to eat a full large meal and why you gotta leave soooo early.
  
  Why not do the visits over a few days like we do?
  
  Are you the Vicar of Dibley? https://youtu.be/2aq3DNSF-jc

- Ricky, your marriage was a hollow shell. It was a cruel charade.
  
  I don't know what this is referring to but I felt that deep inside my chest
- I gotta say, this shit was real tite as a kid. Now I have to drive.

Is Santa the monkeys paw?

Oh man.... as a child of divorce I should feel bad about how hard I laughed at that.

Architect buddy of mine, very smart man both in IQ and EQ, handled this extraordinarily well with his young children.
"Now you have TWO families that love you very much. Just because mommy and I don't live together, that doesn't change anything about our love and ability to care for you. You will safe and loved no matter what."
Picking my kids up on the 26th. Ugh. 15-hour round trip, and again in a week. Worth it.
- Glad it's a better situation than my experience
  
  I just didn’t see my father anymore haha.
  My step dad was great though. He was a batshit crazy and dumb hillbilly, but he loved us. My father disappeared after he and my mother divorced. My step dad was there after he and my mom divorced, until he died a few years ago. That man had troubles and more troubles, but he would have dropped anything to help me out to the best of his ability.
  In defense of my father, my mom didn’t make it easy. At all. I don’t blame any of them though. They did the best they could with what they were equipped with.

I am confused...
- Mom and dad is having a divorce so she will celebrate Christmas twice (ince with mum and once with dad)
  
  Mom said it's all your fault too because you were a mistake and they don't love you anymore, I heard them fighting over who had to take you, dad said he would do it if he got the house and mom screamed "I would rather be homeless than have to keep her in my house."
- The parents are getting a divorce, meaning the kid will celebrate Christmas twice, once with each parent
  
  That's us this year.
- Santa Monkey Pawed her, he technically granted her wish, she's getting 2 Christmases....via making her parents divorce
- Me too until reading the replies, I thought it was about Christmas being on different dates for Western (Protestant + Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox Christians.
  
  I was thinking she was only going to live long enough to see two Christmases...

This hits the feels. I was 15 when my parents divorced. I was crushed. My younger sister however, was giddy. Not because she thought the divorce was cool, but because her best friend told her that after her parents divorced, she got 2 really amazing christmases with expensive gifts that tried to outshine the other parent. Oh, but not us… we were poor. Reality hit next year for her, when my mom couldn’t afford food, let alone gifts.
- I was 22. It just went on for 5 years. They're both better generally happier now, but christ that was rough.

Too dark.
- At least after solstice, it will start to get lighter now? 😄
- Nah

Here's my naive and privileged ass thinking they broke the news about Santa Claus to prevent having to do Christmas twice.
Sorry to everyone who had to endure their parents divorce. ♥️

She has bone cancer and will die in a little over one year.
- Damn boneitis

Monkey paw?

Me too, fren. Me too.

Reminds me of this scene from the Good Boys movie.

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