My great aunt is selling her house, the one I grew up in. It’s falling apart and she has to move. Today is a very hard, sad day for me. I found this picture of me in the front yard with our old mustang in the 90s. I’m in tears.DrizzleDrain t1_jdsx9ia wrote
Was there any hoarding involved, or she just couldn’t afford to maintain the house/property?
Life_Roll8667 OP t1_jdtwqki wrote
No hoarding, my aunts house was always very nice and felt very comfortable. A true southern ladies home. We got ravished by two bad hurricanes here where I am in Florida, after Ivan many many years ago we had minor damage, then the one after (I can’t remember which one) it made the roof worse. Her sons are too busy with their own lives to lend a hand to us and basically just put a tarp over the roof. A limb fell on the roof again after that and it eventually just started taking a toll on the house. The major problem is the roof and the ceilings. And now it’s just to the point where it’s not safe for her to live there anymore and we are broker than dirt… if I had the money I’d fix it up myself, but that’s the hand life dealt us.
ink_monkey96 t1_jdunae6 wrote
I don’t mean to be that guy, especially with what you’re going through right now, but there’s a difference between ravaged and ravished, even though they sound really close together. They’re good words and I don’t want to take anything away from you for using them, and in this instance they’re probably fairly interchangeable, but ravished has some … connotations … that you maybe didn’t intend. It’s my pet peeve, I apologize for laying it on you now, but I hope to help you avoid some embarrassment later on.
Life_Roll8667 OP t1_jdv6714 wrote
Really irrelevant. If you didn’t mean to be that guy, then why did you write a whole paragraph? I’m not embarrassed by a misspell, but I would sure be embarrassed to come on someone’s memory and start being a grammar nazi. Respectfully just don’t do that anymore. Thank you.
DrizzleDrain t1_jdtyurk wrote
That’s rough, I’m very sorry to hear about this. Life can be absolutely overwhelming to the breaking point, and all we can do is move forward and try to grow in a direction that brings us meaning.
Life_Roll8667 OP t1_jdu016k wrote
Yep. Feeling really lost tonight. First time I’ve ever been away from my aunt is 30 years. First time I can’t just go be with her or take her to whataburger with me late at night. First time I don’t have her to watch her movies with. Growing up sucks.
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