that would make nice ground cover wouldn't it i'm carrie and i love plants
that's pretty when i see things grow i feel like god you find everything you were hoping for oh
gosh yeah because i've created this i'm cassandra and carrie is my father he at one point had over
250 different types of cacti in the house the plants became more important than the people were
i'm peggy and carrie is my ex-husband oh my lord i hate ebay it was addictive to him
the thrill of getting a bid you know and just didn't matter if he needed it or not
it was i won i buy things that look like i'd be able to resale and make a profit for myself
i got some really cool stuff oh anybody need a sleeping bag yeah for you
he's probably spent over thirty thousand dollars and i think he told me he sold
something for a hundred dollars and the rest that's his inventory that's his future
i worked in icus and mother baby units and places where i could actually help people and do what
i've been trained to do and when i got out i felt empty and alone he loved the military i think the
structure made him feel worth something and when he retired he lost his way completely
when we would clean we would move stuff he would get really angry and he goes into rages that
are scary one time i became abusive when kerry goes into his rages he doesn't have any control
it's really hard because i love caring and i always will but i can't be anyone's verbal or
physical punching bag and i thought the only answer was to get divorced
the first year and a half there wasn't a night that i went to bed without crying myself to sleep
so i want to start with carrie in the living room just to see what he's willing to get rid of
is there anything carrie in your line of view that you think could go i really want
to keep the gurney i can set things on it and move it from point it to point b
so there's a gurney in your front room do we need you don't have one in your friend
is there a reason why we can't use maybe a wheelbarrow or something else logically
speaking what the heck do you need a gurney phone but it does actually make a logical sense to me
so how's it going it's going okay i think one cause for concern is that you want to sell
i'd say most things you know i purchased this because i want to sell it
and that's what i want to do this stuff is not going to be sold you're not going
to sell anything you haven't in 10 years i haven't tried exactly and you're not going to
i'm trying to be cool i have a standard in my mind this is what i bought it for the standard 5 000
no of got me right here you're standing help me through the
don't don't hit me with a baseball bat just go with work with me
he really does go from zero to 60 and his temper is extreme i don't want to say
take it because i have to live with myself mm-hmm okay you want your grandkids over here
do you leave the phone given carrie's emotional volatility and his difficulty in actually
working with his daughter it's going to be really difficult for him to make it through this process
at some particular point in time he's going to have to allow some trust
i want to keep okay we'll set it aside we'll talk about it later but i don't
want to sit and worry about it right now okay because there's too much of it
i have no desire to hold on to what could [ __ ] me i want to make sure that i'm understanding
that you've had this revelation and that you don't want to sell i'm happy that these things
are going to go the fact that they're going to habitat for humanity is to me it's like what
a blessing you know i'm cool with it who you do have to thank is peg for offering you the idea of
habitat for humanity coming there's a lot of love between you too and that's something to celebrate
so with that being said uh let's get started what do you say let's do it
do we need to go through every little thing in that box i don't even know what's there just
take it can it be donated or do i use it donate it fabulous how about this can this go yeah he's kind
of turned his back on his family for so long can we say goodbye yeah the sacrifice he's making now
is kind of making up for that give it to somebody that needs it donate it makes
me feel like i might be able to get my carry back history baby okay donate you are rocking
it
mom went to walk in and she slammed the door
here's carrie clean shaven and his hair's nice i just thought it wouldn't be appropriate to have
old women come in my house without being married to him you look great so let's go forward and
do what we forgot to do the last time is this a marriage proposal
we belong together i've loved him since i was 19. it's like a fairytale ending
peg do you remember how this room looked yeah i remember there was a gurney right about here yeah
there was it was like a light bulb went off in his head and said you know all this crap doesn't
matter one little bit i want my family i love them and i care about them what do you think there's no
plan and he couldn't have said it any louder than if he'd have climbed to a mountain and screamed it
it's been remarkable to watch carrie's rapid transformation and it appears that
his prognosis and the family's prognosis is excellent they've really come together they've
really reprioritized what matters to all of them which is being together when you look at it now
what do you see a future
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