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TV Dilemmas

There is only a single TV in my house, but two remote controls.

Remote Type A: Fully functional. Buttons capable of changing channels and volume. Belongs to my mother.

Remote Type B: Defunct. Buttons have far long forgotten how to serve their purpose. Belongs to my father.

I remember the arrival of this TV in my house. A fine, summer day, a large cardboard box landed in my parent’s room. From behind unfurling gray of his cigarette puff, my father boasted, “It’s a 51 cm color television.” It was an upgrade from the old, 13-inch black-and-white television I grew up watching. With the new TV, I could savor the oranges, blues, and greens of the Powerpuff Girls on Cartoon Network and marvel at the murky waters as the crocodile waded across the Amazon River on National Geographic. …show more content…

It has defended against each of my father’s onslaught, the deluge of his shoes and the rampant kicks during his drunken stupor. You see, men display their power based on the number of things they can break. My father prided himself on the number of things he could break: the watch on the walls of my parent’s room, the glasses on the kitchen counter, or my mother’s teeth.

The TV in my house could drown out the anger of two screaming adults. It knew how to mask my father’s drunken slurs and my mother’s silent tears. It could hide the shrieking wails of two young children.

The TV in my house was also a battlefield as my parents fought over whether to turn it on or off. With only two rooms, one where we could sleep and the other where we could cook and eat, my parent’s room also equals as my study room. As my father blasted the TV’s volume, my mother fought to keep it down. During my tests, my mother hid the only remote that controlled the TV and made sure I could study for my tests in

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