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Hallelujah Saturday: Day Of Broken Promises


Arch-Angel

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Sabado is Saturday in portuguese.

 

Nani: Daddy, look look! Can I get it someday?

 

Dad: Yeah. Sabado.

 

Nani: Really?

 

My sister is obviously more excited than she's ever been.

 

Dad: Yeah. Sabado de Hallelujah.

 

And my sister's promise is shattered.

 

Today marks the day my dad said he'd get my sister what she wanted when she was a little kid. Everytime she asked, he'd not only deny her, he'd insult her. Sure, it was a joke. To him. She always remembered.

 

She texted me from Brazil asking me what dad's cell number is. They don't keep in contact much.

 

I gave it to her.

 

He should be crying right now like he was last year.

 

Why?

 

He made a promise he couldn't keep.

 

Like the same promise twenty-one years ago at the altar with my mother.

 

A promise he couldn't keep.

 

To have and to hold, from that day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do them part.

 

Hallelujah Saturday holds many sorrows.

 

~AA

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I agree with you on most of this, however I'd like to fight you on one point; perhaps it simply wasn't meant to be with him and your mother. Or maybe it was and they were meant to divorce to toughen you up. But, having been there when my uncle got his, I'd just like to say that, especially if they marry young, often people find themselves an a marriage they are unhappy with, and shouldn't have to be miserable for their entire lives due to something they said at an altar.

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Necro, I won't argue with that. You're right.

 

But he told me himself, he didn't love my mother then.

 

And he was foolish enough to take that vow.

 

~AA

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But he told me himself, he didn't love my mother then.

 

And he was foolish enough to take that vow.

 

~AA

I highly doubt that. Most likely his mind just worked him into believing that...

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While I'll admit there may be some credit in his words, I admit UK is right. My uncle's mind did the same thing. Still, it's a fools move to get married that young.

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But he told me himself, he didn't love my mother then.

 

And he was foolish enough to take that vow.

 

~AA

I highly doubt that. Most likely his mind just worked him into believing that...

He had this plan to prove to my mother's father that he could marry her and live happily ever after.

 

Pretty sure my grandfather brought that promise into the afterlife.

 

~AA

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