by Josiah King

Created on: May 23, 2008

When it comes to things to tell and things to keep secret, I can definitely say I have had my share of both in my life. But there are a couple that "take the cake" for me. But before I get to that, let me explain something first. Due to the nature of the stories and to the respecting of privacy, I am not including names in this article. Keep this in mind as you go through this, and I am sure you will understand why I did this as you read on.

I suppose the most prominent one for me right now, mainly because it just happened within the last 24 hours, is finding out through the newspaper that my mother-in-law is dating an alleged murderer, who is in jail now, just so you don't worry.

Now, this is definitely in the category of ought to tell in my book. But guess what, neither my wife nor I knew about this until today, and not from my mother-in-law, but rather from my wife's aunt. As best as my wife and I know, my mother-in-law has been dating this guy for several months now and never made a mention to us about this issue. That is, until today when she called and asked to speak to my wife and wanted to explain to us face to face what is going on. Naturally, my wife was a bit upset, and for the sake of not saying something out of emotions, decided not to call her back tonight. So, we got a voice-mail from my wife's mother saying that she was sorry that we found out the way we did, and that it was not my aunt's place to have told us, and that she meant to tell us last week.

That might sound good and well, but there is one big problem...she has been dating him for several months and knew about it longer than just last week. Furthermore, we only met this guy once, and he hardly ever spoke to us but was more preoccupied with watching the game at the bar we met them at to get to know this guy. And this may have just been me, but it seemed odd to me that we were at a bar and the only thing the man drank was milk. Call me crazy, but that seems odd to me in a bar.

The second story is also what I would say should have been in the category of tell, and that is the surprise marriage of my father to his now divorced wife.

My dad had been living with this woman for some time already. He was with her towards my last year or two of high school up until last year, 2007. But, it wasn't until two years ago while in Waco with my father to help my ex step-mother's dad with chores around the house that I noticed "it". While sitting down in the kitchen with my dad having something cool

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