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I will write using the term 'you' as if I am speaking to the person who committed suicide. Looking back, this could be Chester's eulogy for himself. It's a eulogy for someone who has committed suicide. No matter how much I try to explain to them, they will never understand why I feel the way I feel today. They will always pick sides and blame the other for my self-destruction. They will never understand why I became a cynical, negative, self-defeating, young adult that hates his/her life because of them. My parents will never understand the way I feel as an adult now. 'You'll never know what I became because of you.' I have become so saddened that I have come to a point where I am emotionless to everything. 'I'm left with emptiness that words cannot defend.'ДЄll of that pain and abuse you brought unto me left me with an empty and shallow heart. I was there while my mother and father were failing at life and became horrible parents. I was always there to witness all the pain and suffering they have caused each other. I watched my mother and father die in the inside due to depression, frustration, and hopelessness. 'I watched you fall apart and chased you to the end.' They ruined each others lives, and all I could do was watch because I was powerless to prevent it from happening. My parents held mine and their own future, but they were careless and ended up destroying our lives in the process. You held it all and I was by your side, powerless.' 'And you held it all but you were careless to let it fall.

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They only showed me how to fail rather than to succeed in life. 'Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose.'ДЄll of those empty promises my parents gave to me while growing up only ended up becoming ten thousand ways to lose in life. I watched my parents try to ruin each others lives in acts of revenge. I saw how they were using me as a pawn to win their battles. I saw the hidden evidence my parents were trying so desperately to keep a secret from me. I watched my parents hurt and sabotage each other. 'I saw the evidence, the crimson soaking through.'ДЄs a kid, I was exposed to all of that hate.

I thought they left behind all of that fighting and moved on. They woke a devil that would ultimately destroy their relationship with each other and the family. It seems like my parents created a demon of hatred and conflict. 'You woke the devil that I thought you'd left behind.' I revealed all of my feelings and secrets to my parents, yet they always hide the truth away from me. 'You hid your skeletons when I had shown you mine.' It's like a song written by a son/daughter explaining how it feels to grow up with divorced parents who constantly hurt each other throughout their lives.

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