Just listed on family calendar as "vacation". Will need to search memory to recall where we went that year. I am assuming this was a driving vacation with Grandma, perhaps the year that Laura was coming off the final break-up with Colin and was a little pile of misery in the back of the van. We were incapable of providing consolation and it was terrible to watch her suffer and not be able to help.
I believe this may have been the year we drove out to Oregon, possibly the year I had the horrible altercation with Catherine after spending the day with the family helping her to pack up her belongings from the trailer in anticipation of moving to her assisted living. I collapsed in a corner with a book, then realized Bob was allowing Michael to watch an age-inappropriate Adam Sandler movie. When I confronted Bob angrily, Catherine took in to me for yelling at him and the scene became very ugly. I would not back down from feeling that Bob (or someone else who was watching the movie) should have realized that this was not appropriate content for a boy his age, and Catherine would not stop berating me. Michael ran out to the car and wouldn't come back in, Laura and my mom went out with him and we just left. Nasty day. I have never really been able to feel affectionate to Catherine since.
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