Essay on Love Is Not Enough - 951 Words

Love Is Not Enough Parents sometimes do not understand the severity of things they say or do to children. However, many times things that are said or done effect the child for the rest of their life. Although the parent may not realize that he or she is hurting the child, they sometimes do. I have one such experience. It started out as one of my happier days. The kitchen smelled of oatmeal cookies baking as my stepsister Jennifer and I attempted to clean up our flour and egg mess. She was daddy’s little girl. My dad had always favored her, but who could blame him? She had his nose, chin and do not forget the blonde hair and blue eyes. Jennifer was the spitting image of my father. I had always looked too†¦show more content†¦Now in other families this may be considered a normal conversation, but in this family that was thin ice. My father had never married my mother. However Jennifer’s mother was different, they had been married. In fact my dad had a history with suspected children whose parents he never got around to marrying. Jennifer’s mom was actually the only one he did marry, up until the current stepmother. Unknown to both my sister and I at the time was the fact that he was actually married to Jennifer’s mom when I was conceived! (Somehow the conversation led us down into the basement.) When I got down there I immediately noticed certain things. It smelled. The smell was a combination of old water and mold from leaky walls, and an increasing collection of dust. In fact the dust seemed to come alive and cling to each other as it gracefully danced off its resting place unto the ground. The concrete floor seemed upset at its disturbance, as its cold hard surface pricked my little bare feet. Jen and I both stood there impatiently waiting, like kids on Christmas morning, for the box my dad was so carefully looking for. Finally he came walking from the storage area with an old cardboard box. 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