Friday, May 14, 2010

Forty-Six Years Later and I Am Still Living With The Damage That Was Done

Its 46 years since my father was killed by Matthew Kerry Smith, and my life has been a fight ever since.
I had to be the protector for my mother, who was misled by people into not buying a house because of worries over money.
The five Canadian chartered banks under the umbrella of the Canadian Bankers Association gave my mother 150.00 per month for her life, which was guaranteed for me for the first ten years.
My mother died in July of 1974, and the annuity having begun in October of 1964 meant that I received 2 cheques.
There was an insurance policy that paid 99.20 for ten years and that ended with the October cheque and one for 62.11 that also ended at that time.
This meant that it was hard to go to college and I had to borrow student loans etc.
I tried to continue but I was depressed and stressed due to my mother's death and finally left the college I was attending in May of 1975 which had not received university status in Ontario. (More about that some other time.)
I continually held jobs where I was good at the work but in many cases especially in the longest held one (working for a customs broker) I was
dumped on by various individuals who were not really happy people and didn't want to dump their psychological crap on their spouses or significant other, so they did it to me as I was a low eschelon co-worker,
as no one cared whether I quit etc.
I was illegally downsized in January 2007 and was told it would be hard to prove it, (I should have sued for Wrongful Dismissal), and haven't worked since.
I believe that a lot of what happened in my life and the way I react to things is because of the loss of my father and the way he died.

1 comment:

  1. When I was a kid in grade 5 I took the class to the Police Museum the at headquarters. Not sure if it still exists. On display there was a dummy dressed as the beatle bandit and other items used in the crime on display. That was a long time ago but today I found the negative's of that visit in the early 70's and just ran a quick google search on the killer. I found this post. So sorry for your loss and subsequent hardship. Truly.

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