20.2.11

call your parents. they probably miss you.

"I do still miss the girls. I miss the ordinary things: cups of tea and sticky buns after school - just sitting round the table, chewing the fat and bitching about their teachers. But it's a lot better now than it used to be. You find yourself useful in other ways. I suppose we all want to feel important - that's the thing. When you have a little baby, of course you're the most important thing in the world to them. When you leave the room they cry and that's lovely. But when they grow up and are able to choose who they like, then you've got to fight for them a bit more. They leave home at 18, then return and find out you're not as bad as they thought you were"
 ADE EDMUNDSON ON HIS 3 GROWN-UP DAUGHTERS

5 comments:

  1. Aw. This makes me want to go home right this second x

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  2. yeh same, it half makes me want to go home and half makes me proud that when I do go home I will be more like an adult. x

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  3. as if i wasnt home sick enough!
    its lovely though :) x

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  4. That is just the most adorable thing ever

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