My Mother was educated, came from a well off family and from a well off community 60 miles west of Machias.
My Grandfather was illiterate, and couldn't write his own name. He once said that women need only enough brains to get them from the kitchen to the bedroom. So, you can imagine the tension between him and my Mother.
I never liked him.I threw the first shovel of dirt into his grave with no remorse at all.
I've tried to be everything he and my Father were not.