That is fascinating. And I didn't know Radium Girls existed! O.O
I would say that Owen's parents are, like, textbook suburban affluent borderline-obsessed-with-their-children parents who did everything "right": private school, stay-at-home mom, sports and piano lessons; and yet Owen can't sleep at night if he thinks too hard about whether or not his dad is proud of him and once he got really really drunk and cried about how he and his dad never do "father-son" things anymore.
Ah. Um. That sounds a lot like me. >.> Right down to the insomnia over how my Dad and I never seem to connect like we used to and the constant hand-wringing over whether he's proud of me. >.>
My family despairs that I've no interest in our ancestry. But considering I hear different versions from different people and the generations before my grandfather lived in villages deep in the South with no proper documentation of events and such-like, I really don't see the point.
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Date: June 9th, 2011 01:55 pm (UTC)I would say that Owen's parents are, like, textbook suburban affluent borderline-obsessed-with-their-children parents who did everything "right": private school, stay-at-home mom, sports and piano lessons; and yet Owen can't sleep at night if he thinks too hard about whether or not his dad is proud of him and once he got really really drunk and cried about how he and his dad never do "father-son" things anymore.
Ah. Um. That sounds a lot like me. >.> Right down to the insomnia over how my Dad and I never seem to connect like we used to and the constant hand-wringing over whether he's proud of me. >.>
My family despairs that I've no interest in our ancestry. But considering I hear different versions from different people and the generations before my grandfather lived in villages deep in the South with no proper documentation of events and such-like, I really don't see the point.