Summer 2009

[Between Tears]

I had only the one hang up, and as you all suggested, I too thought maybe she wasn't ready to talk, but needed to hear my voice for some comfort. I'm waiting for her to call again, and maybe she will speak.

I don't think Dick and Jane have time for the hang-ups now, but there was a time, oh back some 7 years ago, Jane was really busy checking out my phone number. That was long ago, and now she has everything she set out for back then..... but again, I could be wrong and will document the calls until we know better.

I did have a chance to read the full letter Dick sent to S. Dick also calls him deceitful, and a liar, over and over again, tells him he is just like his Mother, and doesn't know what the truth is..... can someone say "Parental Alienation"?

Dick also talks about the family S is with receiving their "cut" of HIS money..... but they have learned quick, and now keep their mouths shut.... actually, they have no use for him, and have decided he's not worth wasting any of their time on him.

Dick's final paragraph states that if you lie to me again, or go against my wishes, I will be through supporting you. So, all this letter really is, is an excuse to stop paying him his child support, which he hasn't paid the whole amount of child support in over two years......

He's just a very sick minded man. Dick states S sat around the house all summer doing nothing, just as he said to me about the summer I took care of his Mother.... Dick said S was a jerk to his own Grandfather, although all the kids heard Dick tell his own Father, "Don't you ever swing at me like that again, otherwise I will kill you!"..... But even Dick's statement wouldn't begin to change the direction of his Father's Alzheimers.

The letter is typed, except for his signature, which he signs "Dad".... it's at least 4 inches tall, and barely legible, first D is capital, big and wide with the "a" opened and the final "d" incomplete.... He used to write much smaller, with very dramatic and pointed letters.... just something weird I noticed, but it seemed to say "I'm larger than life, or I'm more powerful than you".... it's just weird.

In a way, I see that he feels untouchable, or above the law, but I also see him unraveling, trying to control everything and anything.... and we all know, what we truly have control of. What happens as he sees he has lost control, or does he already see it, and trying to recapture S but telling him he will loose his support?

I keep hoping he'll just unravel to the point he just melts away, just like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz....