“When she left, my father took us ’impulse shopping’ at the grocery store, and we would live for the week on whatever my dad, my brother, and I picked out. I remember subsisting on liverwurst and gummy bears one week.”

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Dad: 'Does your mom know you have this?'

He played with us for a while, told us not to tell mom, and to this day, we've all kept our secret."

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