honeywolf7
<font color=teal>I don't get in cars with strange
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I don't stay in close touch with my half-brothers/half-sisters because we weren't raised together and they've never stayed in close touch with my dad. However, of all of them my oldest half-sister and I are probably closest (she does her best to keep up with how I'm doing.) Yesterday right after I hung up the phone with my mom, she called my dad. She gave him all the news of his kids/grand-kids and even though my mom wasn't sure whether to share it with me last night because I was in a good mood, she did. Both of my nieces are divorced and one of my nephews is married with three kids. After she told me all that, I asked about my favorite nephew......he and I became close when I was nine and he was three and every time I saw that part of the family (my oldest half-brother, his wife, their daughter-who's only a year younger than me-and their two sons) he and I talked a lot and I could see that he had a lot of potential to do something special (I could especially see it when he was 12 and I was 18.) When I asked my mom about him, she said "That's the bad news." I braced myself to hear that he'd been killed in a car accident or something of that sort but instead what she told me is that he has severe bipolar disorder and has tried to kill himself three times and will most likely never leave his parents' home to make a life for himself. I did my best to forget about it last night, but it really hurts and scares me especially since I've seen the damage bipolar disorder can do to a person (and the other person I saw with it didn't have it as severely.) So, I guess I'm requesting prayers for his parents and siblings, for him, and for me to be able to deal with it.
