[Reality7146]

Each year I buy the card, but don't send it. He's 67 now; I'm 38.He and my mother had a lousy marriage, which came to a head in my early to mid teens. I'd get harried calls from my mother at school, and have to go home to straighten things out. My high school guidance counselor would just shake his head. My father was also an adulterer and rather lazy, not producing much of an income in many of the years he lived with us, but my mother hung with it for the sake of the kids, though I think it made her batty in the end.Eventually, they were divorced and I really lost touch with the old man out of solidarity with my mother. However, she died in 2000. Also, I left for college at 18 to a faraway town and never really looked back, so it was rather easy to lose touch.To be fair, for a good while, he was not a bad father as far as playing with the kids and such went. He nurtured some of my talents that served me well later. Is it worth reaching out at this point in time?