Letters to the Editor

• Exactly right

  [Read the article: Mom's a pothead]
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  This could turn into the same type of immature, annoying self-righteousness one occasionally sees in a precocious child lecturing adults on why they shouldn't smoke cigarettes.

  I know just what you mean, Samlor. I was one of those immature, annoying teenagers. I begged my mom to quit, in a fit of self-absorbed narcissism. My mother, quite appropriately, ignored me. What did I know? She continued smoking happily until the day she got lung cancer. You can imagine how chagrined I was at my ill-conceived self-righteousness then! While I was caring for her, my father, also a chain smoker, went to the hospital with emphysema. He had to be put on a respirator. The doctors gave him a 20% chance of survival. Nothing like shuttling between two dying parents to teach a teenager not to be so self-centered! I watched my mother waste away and die in that hospital bed. My father somehow survived, although physically disabled, for several years, until he too finally succumbed to his illness.

  So let me tell you, samlor, I'll stop being immature, annoying and self-righteous when you give me my parents back. Deal?

  Permalink Monday, July 9, 2007 08:01 AM