1 week ago
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Dear Annie: I have become the person in my family who remembers everything. I remember birthdays, make the holiday plans, check in on relatives, send the thank-you notes, buy the gifts and somehow keep track of who is upset with whom. If someone forgets an anniversary or a school event, it often falls to me to smooth it over.
The problem is, I never exactly agreed to this job. It just sort of happened, little by little, until I became the one holding the whole family together with a calendar, a smile and a growing sense of resentment.
