Continue On Saturdays

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:

Parents don’t realize the damage their occasional slight remarks cause. It is not their fault really. Some times they just don’t realize they have forgotten to turn their internal filter on. If they do realize what they have said they make the mistake of assuming that little ones won’t remember or that the words they string together won’t make an impression. One time when I was six years old my mother gave me a gentle but loving poke in the belly and said, “You’re getting chubby.” By the time I was thirteen, I was pinching the same belly and saying to my reflection, “You’re getting fat.” When I was eight years old my father said…

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