All We Have is Family

"She said when you get right down to it all you have is family."

Got all dusty here in the office suddenly, Pete. Sad and happy for you. Twenty years is a lifetime.

My older (the middle) brother has been estranged from his mother, his siblings, his kids, for a long, long time. I kept trying to be friends with him, until I couldn't take the rejection any more. Sometimes I think Mom hangs on (turned 94 this year) hoping he'll have a change of heart. She says (having lost her older brother to an accident when they were youngsters), "I once thought having your child die before you is the worst that could happen to a mother. Now I know there's worse."