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Old 06-25-2006, 10:37 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Pandora
I couldn't imagine walking away from my children either, but many women do it these days too. My nephew's real mom walked out of his life when he was 4. She ran off with another man, and he has hardly heard a word from her since.

He is 18 now.

She missed out and she will never get that time back. It is gone.
My dad later in life sorely regretted his decision to remove himself from his kids' lives. All the things he missed out, as we kids did too, and learned you can never recapture what had been lost. A very hard life lesson indeed.
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