When I was 6 years old my mother would take us to the store and every now and then we would meet this older lady by chance who I thought seemed nice and she would tell my mother, "You have such wonderful kids, considering."
I did not know where my mother knew this woman from, but I knew my mother had a strong dislike for her and after all these years I suddenly figured out why. The woman was not saying we were wonderful kids. She was saying considering my mother as a parent and her mistakes or misfortune in the past, it was wonderful we turned out as fucked up as we did because it could have been a lot worse.
So now I reconsidered 50 years later and I finally understand.
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