Except like that scene in the movie A Christmas Story it never happened, She told me to stay out of the basement from now on and to go outside and play that was it, nothing else was ever said about it and I’m pretty certain my mom didn’t tell my dad what I found because he never said anything about it. I sat there on the basement steps looking at the picture for what felt like an eternity as I studied every last detail about the picture and seared it into my brain. Xxx That is until recently when something reminded me of those days, not that I could ever really forget them because I never will. I was speechless as she threw the ripped up picture back into the box and pulled me up by my arm and said you know better than to be
