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femmocrat

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10. I look like my mother, but I'm my father's daughter.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 11:29 PM

Feb 2012

Which is strange, because we were never close. He was hard to get to know. I guess I am too... I keep to myself a lot and I'm not very out-going. My mom was very sociable and loved get-togethers, traveling, and playing cards and games. Me, not so much -- I'm more of a homebody.

The one thing I did get from my mom is that we both love to read. She always encouraged us to read and get a good education. My dad was a hard-working guy, not a reader, and only had a 10th grade education. He was so smart in other ways, though. I miss them both every day.

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It what ways are you like your parents? I have my dad's solitaryness and empathy. I also [View all] applegrove Feb 2012 OP

I'm pretty much my own person but OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #1

That's cool Phentex Feb 2012 #9

I'm the perfect combination of my father's debilitating shyness and my mother's crippling insecurity 6000eliot Feb 2012 #2

I'm not. Chan790 Feb 2012 #3

From Dad, I learned how to be a big smart-ass, sarcastic, and to cuss The Genealogist Feb 2012 #4

I like to think that I got my Dad's ability to woodsprite Feb 2012 #5

I got the best and worst of both of them. kaitcat Feb 2012 #6

Well, I look just like my dad (although it's the look he had when Old Troop Feb 2012 #7

Let's see here... Bladian Feb 2012 #8

I look like my mother, but I'm my father's daughter. femmocrat Feb 2012 #10

My mom insisted I read the newspaper every day when I was 13 or so. I am so thankful for that. applegrove Feb 2012 #11

I think I have my mother's artistic temperment nolabear Feb 2012 #12

I have my dad's over sized head. It gets really annoying when I want to get a hat. My MC helmet is yellowcanine Feb 2012 #13