Monday, December 9, 2024

Family Affairs

Looking forward to seeing my sister Maureen later today. According to Cheryl & Caroline she's in a much better place than she was when we last talked, five years ago. Although her short-term memory is gone this hasn't left her angry. They reckon she feels content and seems to connect primarily to life when she owned the shop on Guide Lane and the kids were toddlers. It will be interesting to see if she has any awareness of who I am, though she does remember me as her little brother. The great, great thing is that she has stopped drinking completely and shows no awareness of her former addiction. This is both faintly astonishing and wonderfully heartening.

Yesterday we spent some time with my nieces and re-acquainted ourselves with my Great Niece Imogen. She's now nine years old and utterly delightful. But a doting Great Grand-Uncle would say that, I suppose.

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