Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!dartvax!mwm
From: mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Jeff's Triumphant return after weeks of silence
Message-ID: <2706@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:50:10 EST
Article-I.D.: dartvax.2706
Posted: Fri Jan 18 10:50:10 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:07:00 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lines: 29

Jeff -
 You are not the only person here with insecurities, in fact, i would venture
to say that the majority of the people here have quite a few.  But you never
see them dragging them out for weeks on end.  You aren't the only one who has
had problems with parents/siblings/teachers/wombats, but most people moderate
the whining they do in public...
 Your parents are people jeff.. you are under no obligation to love them,
or even like them for that matter.. what they did to you is the action of
one person against another... as has been said, you are an adult now (supposedly)
so you should be able to put that behind you... it happened a while ago... you
now have the choice - if you do not like them, then don't associate with them...
there was a quote a while back...
The ideal family is a group of friends with blood relations.
The worst family is a group of enemies tied by blood.
you have the choice whether or not you want to be in their family...

another thing that bothers many people is that you steadfastly resist any offers
of help... i have never seen anyone turn back more help with "but you don't
understand!!!! i'm really scum!!!"  well.... some of us are getting to the
point where we are ready to let you stay scum, and wish you would stop asking
for help and advise on our time if you arent going to listen...
The Jeff Sargent Tale Of Woe is dropping fast in the NYT bestseller list....

And this concludes my first response to a JS article....

Mark Modrall
mwm
Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.