Fairy godmother
Well, someone other than me won the lottery last night, so I’ll have to go on working and doing my own hair for now.
In addition to my shattered lottery dreams, I now have to eat my unkind words about my aunt/godmother. At least some of them, anyway. While she does excel at zinging me with the insult wrapped in a compliment (and it is an art), she has also made a gift of outstanding generosity to my mother.
For those of you who aren’t fully conversant with the more sordid details of my family’s recent history, my mother’s second husband left her a few months ago, and she is completely destitute now at the age of 70, living on food stamps and welfare. My aunt/godmother is actually no relation, but she and her late, lamented husband were my parents’ neighbors in the first years of their marriages, back in 1960, and they have been friends and really almost family ever since.
Anyway…my godmother has committed to giving my mother $250 each month for the rest of my mother’s life, even if she outlives my godmother, who is some years younger and in far better health. She has already sent Mom checks for the next three months. This gesture moved me to tears, and now I feel really guilty about some of the things I have said and thought about her.
June 25th, 2001 at 7:06 am
I think that was incredibly generous of her, Suzy. But it’s possible to be generous (some people like to feel needed), and still unkind. And from what I’ve heard, she’s been terribly unkind to you, so you have every right to think negative things.
I’m sure Jeffrey Dahmer donated to charities as well. lol
June 25th, 2001 at 7:09 am
You’re right. See above. Maybe I should just look the facts in the face and admit to myself that she doesn’t like me, never has, never will, and just relegate her to Christmas cards and birthday cards (not, of course, expecting any reciprocity here) and just let it go. Probably the best thing for my mental health.