I Could Not Help But Love Them

a story about my father’s cruelty

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

My childhood was long ago but parts of it are only now making sense to me. We moved around a lot because my father could not keep a job. In his later years he was diagnosed with a plethora of disabilities. But as a young man he knew nothing of bipolar disorder, rheumatoid arthritis or that he would develop Parkinson’s Disorder. It was tough on him, my…