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Zoey - I was about to post the same thing. Since we don't know the adoptive mother or father, we have to be just as compassionate towards them as we are to understanding Cassie and her problems. After having been raised by an alcoholic, I can imagine what the adoptive parents thoughts were when Cassie calls drunk - get that freak away from this little kid! Then, she sobers up, but do they really know that? It is just for today that she's sober? What if she's on something else? Do they let her back into Dustin's life, only to find out they'd been had again and it's at his detriment? Or, maybe she is clean. They just didn't know. Gun shy? Ya betch'a.
I did admire Cassie for not throwing the adoptive mom under the bus when Dustin mentioned that he had been told she was dead. I bet that took a lot of strength to not blurt out something nasty that would feel good...at the time. I thought she handled it with lots of class. A little needy at times, but that's to be expected...19 years.
It was so touching. I want to thank SO and Cassie for sharing her story til the end with us. Good cry had all around!
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