When I was at my parent's house last weekend, the inevitable topic of what to do with my room came up. Ever since I moved out permantly over8 years ago,,, my mother has been talking about what to do with my old room. Even before I had left for college in 1994, she had talked about doing some remodeling. After all, besides a new bedspread and curtains, the room was pretty much unchanged since we moved there in 1980. Well now that my parents are finally redoing their room (it also was exactly the same since we moved in), she has steped up her seriousness of her plans for my old room. While talking about her plans with me she let on that she felt bad because it took so long to finally get started with doing something with my room. She also said she felt bad about the choice of curtains because she said that I strongly liked a different set that she didn't choose way back when. This completely floored me: a.) because I can't imagine having that strong of an opinion over a window treatment and b.) if she is feeling guilt about this minor thing that happened over 10 years ago, then what other seemingly innocuous things have I done to bring her grief over the years.
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