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Article: DEAR ABBY: Brother wants to be part of his family's events
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 21, 2005
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DEAR ABBY: I'm a single man in my mid-40s. My parents are gone,
but seven of my 10 siblings are still alive.
When I was 12, my appendix burst and I became deathly ill.
The hospital visits took their toll on my dad, who suffered a
major heart attack two weeks after I was released.
Two weeks after that, my father had another massive heart attack
that ended his life.
I felt extremely guilty. I thought I had killed my dad, so I
turned to our parish priest for help. Instead, he chose to molest me.
He said I had made him do it, and I walked out of church feeling I
was to blame - that I was evil.
From then on I trusted no one. I kept people at a distance. I have
never had a close personal ...