“Haven’t we done this before?” The look in her eyes was defiant.
“What? Driving me round the bend?”
“Why doesn’t the message go through your thick head that you cannot dominate or manipulate me?”
“Is that the way you talk to your father?”
“Well… you know better.”
His entire life floated in front of his eyes, he wished he could go back to his estranged parents and divorced wife and ask forgiveness, but the daughter he loved had walked out of the house.
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Well written glance into the life of someone who has regrets, but may yet learn to change things for the better with those he cares about who are still around.
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Thanks a lot!
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Let’s hope a turn for the better comes about.
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Thank you, Lisa!
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Good Six.
(Surely Life’s greatest paradox and burden, the repetition of patterns of relationships. The unfortunate thing is that genuine change must come from within and has very little power to change the other person. If we accept that, we get to keep our own change, if we do not, we end up surrendering a new world for the old.)
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Thank you so much, Clark!
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Regret is an awful burden yet worse is facing those whose forgiveness you seek but who may never bestow it. Sad. Forgiveness is a healing process. I hope both find the place where they can begin that process.
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Thank you, Denise!
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There’s a whole life of hurt in how she reacts to him, hurt he perhaps didn’t want to give, but didn’t know how not to. Excellent story.
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Thank you, Mimi!
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https://paperkutzs.com/2020/08/27/six-sentence-story-going-back/
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Thanks for joining in!
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There’s a lot packed into those six sentences. Great job.
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Thank you so much. UP!
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I love how is so few lines, you’ve written a great story!
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome 😉
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