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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 659243" data-attributes="member: 1550">Copa, I think he will contact you again. I really do.It is hard not to bring our past into our present sometimes too. I know that. Your boundary was reasonable. I am not sure how to block my phone either, but I told my dad I blocked my Things...lol. I hope I did it right, but I know you didn't mean it with your son.Copa, nobody is less impressed by money, power, showing off, etc. than me. Nobody. My idea of an ideal life would be to travel all over the country in an RV and stop off at differen campsites, talking to the people who were there, sitting around a fire, dressed down, etc. I grew up in a fairly ritzy town and fled as soon as I could and have no good memories of the plastic cut outs who lived there. All they thought about was their possessions and what others had...ugh. I could never be that way. borrrrrrrrrrrrrring. I'm very happy in my clean, airy two bedroom apartment where we don't have to do the lawns or fix what breaks and we are at peace. There is no pressure to wear name brands. I doubt I even know most name brands, except in shoes, which I work with at goodwill and I only learned them because of Goodwill. That's m y part-time job. I never wanted to be important or the average person's idea of successful. I more enjoy the simple things in life that money can't buy or take away. I lived in a Chicago suburb. It was not on the North Shore, which is extremely, extremely wealthy, but I did live NEAR there. I don't know if you've heard of Winnetka, Highland Park, Wilmette, Glenvew or t hat area of Chicago's burbs, but they are very very very wealthy. I heard once they were one of the wealthiest in the nation. I DON"T CARE. I would never live there, even if I won the lotto. If I did, I'd buy several vacation homes in remote areas so we could travel around and meet down-to-earth people.There is something about wearing mink stoles (as an animal lover I hope the upper class has dropped these hideous coats) and wearing spiked high heels while walking to synagogue in the Sept. heat of Chicago that turns my stomach. This is one reason I renounced my Jewish roots. It may be wrong, and I feel guilty telling you this, but I just could nott abide the people I grew up with and most of them were Jewish, snobbish, and made fun of me. I always tended to get along better with the very few non-Jews in my classroom and decided early on to switch religions as soon as I could, partly because the school experience, and my peers, were another source of trauma. Copa, your sister could have all the money in the world and I wouldn't be impressed. The only way anyone can impress me is by being kind and giving and caring. Copa, the few times I've gone back to my growing up suburb to take a look at it for old times sake (and torture( it makes me want to gag. So one person your sister can not impress with her "stuff" is me. by the way, I hate cities and live hundreds of miles from the nearest big city in Wisconsin. I like it where the crime is low and the people are friendly, not looking at the labels on your clothing.</blockquote>

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