When I was about 12 I was on the playground swinging on the swings, a little boy who was about 7 years old sat next to me and we started to talk. He started to talk about hockey, which I had absolutely no idea about, and mentioned the Bruins. Mind you, when I was younger I had severe anger issues and couldn’t control my temper, even towards small children. He then went on to talk about how great they were and how they were the best team, I told him I had no idea what or who the Bruins were. He got flustered and shoved me off the swings saying, “Are you crazy!” I got so angry, I stood up and pushed him into a metal bar, he fell to the ground crying and yelling, “Your evil! And mean!” He continued to run away, now I was extremely angry and chucked my phone (with an Otter case) at his back. He continued to scream in pain as he ran home, only a couple of feet away. It turns out he had to be rushed to the hospital because I broke his skull and fractured his spine, even to this day, three years later. I have to walk past that park every day and every time I do I feel terrible. What should I do? It’s been three years so I feel like contacting him would be a little excessive, and when I told my friends they bullied me for almost a year calling me a terrible person for hurting a small kid.

I been thinking real hard about even relaying these awful things about the person that I have admired the most, the person I have respected and revered my whole life but that now, has completely backstabbed me in the worst way possible. A few years ago, a scandal broke in my political family involving my mother. As you can imagine, it nearly broke my marriage and tore my husband’s family apart. My sister in law found my father in law and my mom talking on social media. The worst part of it, when I was confronted, I was accused of knowing about the whole affair and made it looked like I was an accomplice to the whole ordeal. When I had absolutely no clue to such a disgusting mess. I don’t know what neither of them were trying to accomplish and now, I’m the black sheep of the family. No one talks to me. While my father in law is still loved and honored. My mother the home wrecker and I pay the sins of her ordeals. She never once has said I’m sorry. Never! In her head, I’m better off without that side of the family. But it’s not about that; why did she do this to me? Why my father in law? Among so many men? Why him! I guess I’m just looking for an explanation and I know I will never get it from her. Because she just cannot accept she did anything wrong. I wish I could get her version because as of now, I only know everyone else’s but her’s. I always thought I didn’t need to hear her side because it’s not my place to question her, but I have kids who now have to suffer for her sins as well. I don’t think it’s fair to them either. I guess the damage is done as well and the past is the past. I won’t get nothing accomplished but I just want an acknowledgment from her part that she messed up.

• August 12, 2023