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That's a sad story but such is life...we can't control the way it goes.
posted by
shamasehar
on May 3, 2020 at 4:25 AM
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TYPO; There were so many aunts and uncles...... "DUH!"
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on May 2, 2020 at 5:48 PM
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FSI..there were son many aunts and uncles on both sides of my parent's families that I never met all of them...they were married for 76 years!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on May 2, 2020 at 5:33 PM
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Re: Yes, the age difference doesn't help.
Both of my parents were only children, so I only have second and third cousins who are twenty years older than I am. We have little to nothing in common, yet my brother is eighteen years younger than I, and we are really close.
posted by
Sherri_G
on May 2, 2020 at 5:28 PM
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Sometimes it is hard to keep up with cousins.
The age difference between your dad and your uncle Willy could have played a big part where closeness counts. It sounds like they also had very different goals. It is sad that your uncle ended up a drunk after all that he went through. Time and circumstance can really change a person. Hopefully, he will eventually find peace.
posted by
Sherri_G
on May 2, 2020 at 5:25 PM
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A sad story. I can see that perhaps your dad didn't want you to be exposed to them too much. One thing of interest, I have a 3rd cousin who had an aunt or sister who died as a toddler because a pot of boiling water fell somehow on her!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on May 2, 2020 at 1:18 PM
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guess by the time your Dad grew up he probably wouldn't have had much to talk about with Uncle Willie. I agree that is a big age gap. I had a lot of paternal cousins 20 plus years alder than me and it wasn't really possible to be friends with them. I was just a little kid to them. They were closer to my dad.
posted by
Kabu
on May 2, 2020 at 11:29 AM
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Sounds pretty well unfortunate right from the start. Drink has destroyed many normal marriages.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 2, 2020 at 8:37 AM
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