Tristate
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So there is an average American family. A mom, dad, and four kids. Dad is an alcoholic. The family keeps it together amazingly for years. When the kids grow up things start to unravel. One son has drug addictions he fights daily and he has gone in and out of the court system. A daughter has an illegitimate son and she is a stripper to make ends meet. Another daughter is harmless but never can find motivation to stay employed or find a direction in life. The oldest is a boy and through it all he has persevered and succeeded for the most part in life. One day the druggy screw up son gets busted by dad stealing stuff out of the garage. The family is thrown into conflict. The alcoholic dad tells the kids they are all turds that never appreciated all he did for them. They can't comprehend his sacrifice because most of them will never be fathers. On the side alcoholic dad starts to have an affair. It's exciting and he doesn't have to feel momentarily like he is stuck in the life he never really enjoyed. He and his girlfriend get to play dress up like he is a soldier and she never tells him "no". The family finds out and the alcoholic father claims the mother was a witch that never respected him. The family starts to turn on alcoholic dad. They remind him of the time he beat mom. He proclaims that was one time they shouldn't judge him by because it never happened again. The son who succeeded in life convinces the family to forget it all and they make it through another week. Another week living under a man who refuses to accept his culpability in a home he slowly helped destroy. Everything stays that way for years. Barely held together by one good son. But one day the day comes and the son gets the call from the county lockup. Dad's in the tank and needs the good son to come bail him out and take him home. But the good son has had enough. He won't defend dad anymore. His second wife stays mad at him for constantly trying to help the other three siblings survive both fiscally and emotionally. She is sick of his loyalty to a destructive alcoholic. So he quits caring what the other kids do with dad and mom. At one time he was the most important ally the dad had but now the son doesn't care. Too many problems of his own.
More cops died today. More families ripped apart. More prayers sent from all of us. It breaks my heart to tell y'all what will happen. It saddens me to watch the news and then read yall's posts filled with hate. I told you this would keep happening all the while praying that it wouldn't. The time has come for police to show everyone they see their flaws and are ready to make changes. Please before the support of the average working taxpayer is replaced with apathy.
More cops died today. More families ripped apart. More prayers sent from all of us. It breaks my heart to tell y'all what will happen. It saddens me to watch the news and then read yall's posts filled with hate. I told you this would keep happening all the while praying that it wouldn't. The time has come for police to show everyone they see their flaws and are ready to make changes. Please before the support of the average working taxpayer is replaced with apathy.