Personal Narrative: My Father's Divorce
My mother gaining custody and the house brought my brothers and me a whole again. Despite Rudy staying on my father’s side throughout the divorce, she never once brought it up. I always wondered why, but I could guess that my father leaving was enough on him. We all lived under one roof at last. Without my father, she began to work even more long hours and didn’t see us as much. There were plenty of nights where she wasn’t sitting at the dinner table. There were mornings where I wouldn’t see her at all because I went to school while she was asleep. Plenty of afternoons where I got home, and she was working. And Many late nights, where my mother finally arrived home, but I had already fallen asleep. We took care of ourselves. No, I didn’t have