"Biologically programmed." IMO, you said right there. Otherwise, you described me. But it has been an interesting journey to trace the misery back in what little family history trickled through. The grandfather who (fled?) the plantation-owning family age 14 to work on the railroads, who would not speak to his brother decades later. The …
"Biologically programmed." IMO, you said right there. Otherwise, you described me. But it has been an interesting journey to trace the misery back in what little family history trickled through. The grandfather who (fled?) the plantation-owning family age 14 to work on the railroads, who would not speak to his brother decades later. The mysterious sister who went crazy because the patriarch dragged her away from a love not approved. Even in the generation of my mother, brother hated sister, AT THE SAME TIME they would get together with all the decor for holidays and tear to pieces lazy blacks and rag heads and fairies and bra-burners and eggheads and whatever they judged not up to their "family" standards, except they hated each other.
"Biologically programmed." IMO, you said right there. Otherwise, you described me. But it has been an interesting journey to trace the misery back in what little family history trickled through. The grandfather who (fled?) the plantation-owning family age 14 to work on the railroads, who would not speak to his brother decades later. The mysterious sister who went crazy because the patriarch dragged her away from a love not approved. Even in the generation of my mother, brother hated sister, AT THE SAME TIME they would get together with all the decor for holidays and tear to pieces lazy blacks and rag heads and fairies and bra-burners and eggheads and whatever they judged not up to their "family" standards, except they hated each other.