The Party That Wasn’t Supposed to Take Place
The other children tested the
limits too, but they usually tried to hide it from us. With Gary, it was right out in the open. However,
I didn’t know about everything.
Long after Gary had moved out on
his own, I was asked to perform a marriage ceremony for two of his
friends. I asked where they met. They said, “At your house.” Then they hummed and hawed for a minute and
said, “At a party…” I finished their
sentence for them. I said, “…which wasn’t supposed to take place.” We had been
gone, and we left Gary to stay overnight by himself, so he thought it would be
a good time to have a party.
Gary tried a lot of different things
at school – concert choir, band, drama, the swim team, track and field,
football, soccer. He never stuck with
any of it for a very long period of time.
He struggled academically, but that didn’t come from lack of
intelligence. He was just plain bored
with school. In his thirties he decided
to go back to college and he pulled straight A’s. He said, “Dad, I finally fell in love with
learning.” He’s working on a bachelors’
degree right now, and making very good grades.
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