confundedawlish:
Heyo. Sorry for the random disappearance there. My father passed away a week ago and today was the funeral. We've had a pretty rough (read: nonexistent) relationship the past few years (read: eight) because of his insane mail order bride. His passing was shocking and I'm kind of a weird bundle of emotion right now. Before that woman, we had been super close. She kind of isolated him away from his family and friends (read: the only people that knew about the funeral were people that she knew, none of his students [he was a professor at the local community college and university], friends or anyone that was connected to him prior to their marriage. Even my sister and I didn't know until Saturday about his passing. She kept it from us.) Anyway. I'm going back to tags now!
-Alex