Destruction of self confidence

[arewethereyet]

..... dad's clients were good church-going Catholics.

For my parents it appeared to be exactly this, more business and being with the city 'in crowd' than it ever was about religion. Yet they still tried to throw a fit when I left.

Dad actually admitted this to me before he died and said he wished he had let me go to the public school like I had begged to do for years. I think making the three of us kids go to Catholic school was a way to sort of detract from the fact he married a non-Catholic and basically an outsider.