User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging II: Electric Blogaloo/@comment-1659929-20120212061604

I can't believe it... Dad gave me his watch, the watch !

Let me explain:

We were four when Mom and dad split up. I went with Mom, Tarah with Dad. Dad bought a watch That day, my dad got a roughnecking job, he left Tarah with my grandma, then went to walmart. He bought a watch. 4 years later when he went to prison, I found it, he wanted me to keep it for him. It had been working for 4 years without a new battery. Then 4 years later he got out of prison it still worked with the same battery. It still works to this day. 10 years still same battrey, and the alarm goes off at the same time, the time him and Mom split. He told me this before he went into prison, "As long as this is running I promise to do my best to keep this family together." and I'll be danged he's doing it.

I don't know, it just made me feel like one of my parents still loved me.. And that when I was in the hell that my mom dragged me into, my Dad trying to make a better life for us.