unfortunately

I have this friend. And she has this broken family. But how can it be broken it if was never whole?

It's just so sad. How unfortunate are the children who never chose to be born out of an illicit affair? Children who spent childhood without a real father, and had to figure out adolescence for themselves because mother had to leave and marry another man? How unfortunate is that?

This may not be the most unfortunate thing in the world, but as her siblings search for a home in all the wrong places, lives start to veer towards paths of self-destruction. And then she is left to the task of being the mother and father who tries to contain the chaos while facing the challenges of her own life.

There are more unfortunate things in this world, but if you know my friend like I do, you'd see that cleaning up after the fallout your parents left behind should be somewhere near the top of the charts.