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This reminds me of a family story--literally, The Day Mom Destroyed Her Marriage.

Once upon a time, a fierce-tempered, red-haired Appalachian runaway from Harlan, KY married a Sicilian-American man. They had six kids. A pair of twins died at birth; their youngest son died after being mugged;
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Okay...I just wanna know who got that pissed off to do this in the first place? Also it seems like this would set off even Tony Soprano.
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and the little girl that was her husband's biological child (but not hers) died at 4 months.

Many marriages crack under the strain of parental grief over the loss of a child. Throw in infidelity, and it's a lit match in search of a gas leak.

And the Old Man (not my father, but my brothers
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called him that, too) was about to blow things up.

Here's how it happened.

It was a hot day in Chicago, August 1969, and Mom had come home from her job at Quaker Oats dead tired.
But her boys had to eat, so she made chicken cacciatore.

The boys came to the table and Mom sat down with them
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to eat.

The Old Man came in at that point and saw the food. Mom knew he was about to complain from the look on his face, and steeled herself for it.

"What the hell did you cook this shit for? You know I don't like to eat it!"

The Old Man hated chicken cacciatore as much as my brothers loved it.
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Mom thought about telling him to piss off. But they'd been arguing for days, and she hated seeing the looks on her boys' faces when they started shouting. So she answered, "Fine. I'll make you something else."

She said she knew at once that it wasn't what he wanted to hear, because the Old Man
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