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I was raised in an interracial family. My sister and I are the black children in the family. We were raised by our grandparents after we were abandoned. From the age of about 3 years old until college, my grandmother and grandfather were our guardians. We lived in the house with them as their children.

My grandmother most of my life was an emotionally abusive woman.

She spend 20 years convincing me that I was "handicapped" because my father was born with fetal alcohol syndrome off of the reservation. I only tell you this because there was a huge fight about 7 years years ago where I called her out on this lie. She told me I shouldn't go to graduate school because I was "handicapped". I ignored her. When I graduated with my graduate degree I refused to invited her to my ceremony because she didn't believe in me.

I also a couple months ago, called out my grandmother for telling my sister when she was young, "I don't think my son is your real daddy." This caused years of torment for my sister. So I told her that was wrong to do.

The entire time, my grandfather was the loving mediator in the conflict that we had with our grandmother. Granddad was the favorite. We all love him.

So at midnight tonight, my sister got a text reply for Mother's Day. It was a video of our grandfather with slurred speech. Then my grandmother tells my sister that our grandfather had a stroke ONE WEEK AGO. I have reached out to my grandmother to find out what is going on and she won't reply. I have reached out to their daughter (my aunt) to find out what is going on and she hasn't called back yet.

I am so upset that the grandfather that raised me for 20 years had a stroke and nobody ever intended to tell me or inform me what is going on. I live 500 miles away. Is this normal?

Hello! I'm 17 and about to turn 18 in 3 days. I've been thinking about joining the military and my parents know and they convinced me to do it. I thought about it and made the decision that if I don't like any of my college classes this upcoming quarter at community, I'm joining the military. I have pretty much no clue on what I want to do in life. When I told her my plan, she told me if I did join the military, she told me that I should buy a lot of condoms because supposedly women like military men. I thought it was full of shit and this might only be applied to gold diggers. Not only that, I thought that military men also have civilian clothes, so how do women even know that a man is in the military? Not only that, now I think women now are into Tik tok e-boys and stuff. By the way, I've been single for so long and never had a girlfriend and I've wanted one so bad for a while now. I've tried to slide in girls DM's and usually doesn't work out because they are already in a relationship. If girls do like military men, then I need some tips for me to pick up women.