Forgotten Children


	Forgotten Children

Imnclady

8-4-2008 10:24 AM

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death, children, parenting

Imnclady says:

I left a pizza on top of my car and drove off ...but I never forgot I had a child in the back seat.

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8-4-2008 12:45 PM

masbury

I have whopping big ADHD. My short term memory, without medication, is in the 3rd percentile. I didn't know it till I was in my 50s.
I could have done it. And it would have killed me, too.

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