A ridiculously long sentence fragment with an unstated conclusion

[michaelboy]

And for all the times as a boy that I rejected what I knew was right and for all the family holiday dinners that seemed so much less important than they really were and all the friends that I treated cruelly, and for my children when I wasn’t really that great of a single parent, and for the relationships that were less than healthy, and for the times I ignored my friends and for the days when I brought my work home when I should have been paying more attention to my family, and for the nickel of milk money that I took out of Sharon’s desk in the 3rd grade, and for stupid argument I had with my wife in Penn Station and for the way I made fun of people and for the deck of playing cards that I stole from Loo’s Pharmacy and for the cars that I vandalized with spray paint when I was ten and for the times of being so angry about cancer that I lost my patience and kindness, and for the days that I just didn’t feel like going to the VA Hospital to see my dad, and for all the returnable soda bottles I stole from the back of the Hudson to cash in at two cents each, and for a list
that could run on forever...

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[digitalbodies]

beautiful reflection. I look at the people around me sometimes and wonder what threads they've left untied, which tiny scenes they turn over in their head at night. could you have done better? would you have this life, without all the ways you've hurt and been hurt? I carry them with me and hope I'll never forget.