Karen Kilgariff
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when I was reading this article, it sounded so harsh, but it's like, that's that thing of like, I, I feel like you can't get rich quick like that and have things just go great. Yeah. Because once you start getting all the money you want and you can buy all the things you want and you start wanting the things you can't have. Yeah. And it gets a little nuts like that. Oh, I got it.
when I was reading this article, it sounded so harsh, but it's like, that's that thing of like, I, I feel like you can't get rich quick like that and have things just go great. Yeah. Because once you start getting all the money you want and you can buy all the things you want and you start wanting the things you can't have. Yeah. And it gets a little nuts like that. Oh, I got it.
Um, look at my riches. I just, please watch your behavior is what I'm saying. Um, Okay, so when he makes this announcement, the room goes silent because he's saying they're the ones that should get it. And his sister and his mother are both just staring at him. And let's see, it says, his mother sat stone-faced.
Um, look at my riches. I just, please watch your behavior is what I'm saying. Um, Okay, so when he makes this announcement, the room goes silent because he's saying they're the ones that should get it. And his sister and his mother are both just staring at him. And let's see, it says, his mother sat stone-faced.
She didn't ask what kind of cancer he had or what the prognosis that the doctors gave him. Instead, she blurted out in Armenian, your sons, the shadow they cast is not yours. And then she got up and she walked up the stairs and shut the door. Now, she lived with him, as he had said, him and his wife Rita. She wouldn't speak to him. So she would get up at 730 every morning, go to work, come home.
She didn't ask what kind of cancer he had or what the prognosis that the doctors gave him. Instead, she blurted out in Armenian, your sons, the shadow they cast is not yours. And then she got up and she walked up the stairs and shut the door. Now, she lived with him, as he had said, him and his wife Rita. She wouldn't speak to him. So she would get up at 730 every morning, go to work, come home.
They'd be standing in the kitchen. She'd get a glass of water and go upstairs and shut the door.
They'd be standing in the kitchen. She'd get a glass of water and go upstairs and shut the door.
Yes. And as he was getting chemotherapy, as he was losing his hair, he ended up losing 60 pounds. Oh, my God. He was dying of cancer. Silent treatment. That's so sad. It's really fucked up. And it's very old country. I mean, it's how some people are. It's hard. And obviously, I think knowing, at least based on what the wife says, the relationship that he had with his mother, this...
Yes. And as he was getting chemotherapy, as he was losing his hair, he ended up losing 60 pounds. Oh, my God. He was dying of cancer. Silent treatment. That's so sad. It's really fucked up. And it's very old country. I mean, it's how some people are. It's hard. And obviously, I think knowing, at least based on what the wife says, the relationship that he had with his mother, this...
was breaking him. It was terrible. Sure. Um... So after a year of the silent treatment, he went into his mother's room and he took down, there was a picture of him as a child in Beirut with her when he was like four years old that she had kept up on her dresser. He took it down. He took out the picture. He ripped it in half.
was breaking him. It was terrible. Sure. Um... So after a year of the silent treatment, he went into his mother's room and he took down, there was a picture of him as a child in Beirut with her when he was like four years old that she had kept up on her dresser. He took it down. He took out the picture. He ripped it in half.
He burned the half with her on it and he crumpled up the half with him on it and threw it away and then put the frame back up. And two days later, their house catches on fire.
He burned the half with her on it and he crumpled up the half with him on it and threw it away and then put the frame back up. And two days later, their house catches on fire.
Yeah. Yeah. And their house, they, him and his wife almost get caught in the house. They have to get rescued by firemen. The house burns down. The mother takes, you know, her stuff or whatever. I don't know how much she had left and moves in with the sister.
Yeah. Yeah. And their house, they, him and his wife almost get caught in the house. They have to get rescued by firemen. The house burns down. The mother takes, you know, her stuff or whatever. I don't know how much she had left and moves in with the sister.
No, but he, as he's going into his sickness and on, you know, I'm sure tons of painkillers and in a weird place, he's telling his son, Steve... that the fire is his mother's doing that she knew based on what he did to the picture that that's, that was her. And I can't stop doing that. Steven, we need a new setup. Um, sorry. Uh, so yeah, he's hallucinating basically and saying that, uh,
No, but he, as he's going into his sickness and on, you know, I'm sure tons of painkillers and in a weird place, he's telling his son, Steve... that the fire is his mother's doing that she knew based on what he did to the picture that that's, that was her. And I can't stop doing that. Steven, we need a new setup. Um, sorry. Uh, so yeah, he's hallucinating basically and saying that, uh,
that it was somehow her doing. He believed that his mother and her sisters and his sisters were plotting against him.
that it was somehow her doing. He believed that his mother and her sisters and his sisters were plotting against him.