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Family Tourniquets

My mother died this past August.  If any of my extended family reads this they'll instantly accuse me of trying to score pity points for myself. I'm not. If you have no sympathy for me over the passing of my mother...so be it.  I'm not going to plead for it.  I'm just stating the fact, that she like Jacob Marley, is as dead as a doornail. It happens to the best of us. Anyway, in the course of my mother's rapid decline and passing, I was disowned by two members of my family. Were we fighting over who gets Mom's treasures?  No.  Were we vicious because we each thought we deserved the lion's share of the inheritance?  Hardly. No, my family went batshit crazy over the way I processed her death. Courtesy of Creative Commons That's it.  No revelations of family secrets.  No bickering over cash, cars, or mansions. Nope.  It was because of my less-than- polished  bourgeois way of expression. I was cursed (literally!) and disowned.  I guess