Must be one of the top 10 Tacky B-day cards!

My birthday is just around the corner and even though I don't talk to my family and I've made it clear to them I don't want anything to do with them, my "sister" and "father" feel they must send cards for my b-day and Christmas.

I received a card from my "sister" today. Probably one of the better cards she sent since it was very plain and if she would have just left it at that, all she would have done was waste her money one more time. I have yet to figure out why they keep sending cards when they know I don't want any contact.

I guess she figured as long as she was going to spend the $.39 to mail the stupid card she may as well pass along some "family" news. Now, even before I distanced myself from my so called family, this family excluded my "sister" and I from just about every event that happened since my parents separated and were divorced. And if it didn't happen right away, it did happen over time. So except for a select few, there was no closeness with the "family" before I put the distance in place.

That being said, written in the b-day card from my "sister" was the following (and I am quoting this):

'And I wish to let you know that Aunt Imelda's son Michael died ...Cancer, and cousin Delphis' son Richard has been in CCU at Windham ... basically a cold turned into pneumonia.'

I had an uncle who passed away a few months ago, my "father" called to tell me. I didn't bother to ask why no one bother to tell me he was sick. Again, no one told me Michael was sick, but thought I should know he "died". I suppose I was told about Richard only because the bitch was sending a card anyway.

I hardly remember some of these people and some I don't remember at all. Yes, I feel bad that they have passed but they haven't been a part of my life and it has no impact - though I guess some feel it should.

So as I wait for the next unwanted b-day card to show up, I'll have to wonder if that will contain any news that I don't care about.

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