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My daughter thinks sherpa feels like fibreglass.

My sister consoling me at A&E after I collapsed - I was waiting for a brain scan to rule out a bleed:

Sis: don't worry, they won't find a brain.

My great grandmother was the first woman to get a divorce in our town once it became legal for women to divorce their husbands in the state of Georgia.

My sister is the funniest person I know!

My aunt Ela (mom's older sister) who was already very ill (a stroke and a heart attack), additionally got Covid while being in a hospital.

My aunt Ela just died. She joined her parents, husband and baby son who lived just four days, as well as her older brother in the afterlife.

I had a great great grandfather who 'wallpapered' his entire house with photos of dogs and chickens. This was the same man who built his own house and barn, then when he added wiring for electricity, proceeded to burn half the house down and had to rebuild it. My uncle later lived in that house and I recall being there as a small child. As far as I know, the house is still standing to this day. If I could buy it, I totally would.

My uncle Jan is very sick now - he has eaten some mushrooms picked by him earlier, that, although perfectly edible, not poisonous, were very bad for his stomach. He's too afraid to call a doctor about this, although he is an elderly man so those mushrooms can due to this fact potentially turn out to be even more dangerous for his health than they would have been to the organism of someone young.

P.S. My mom who went to see him, is back and claims he's feeling better.

My cousin Sylwia appeared in some disco polo songs music videos This is what disco polo is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_polo

My mom told me the other day that my cousin, who is a teenager, says he doesn't like whipped cream. But he ate and liked my mom's coconut cream pie, which had whipped cream on it. When she told him this he didn't believe her. He didn't want the whipped cream left over from when my mother made coconut cream pie put on the cherry pie his mother made him, but apparently when it's already on coconut cream pie it, I don't know, becomes one with the coconut cream?

My aunt Wanda is very ill and the doctors claim it's already her last days.

My aunt Wanda (my godmother at the same time) died today. She had Alzheimers and she already lived in her own world. She was not a good person in her life, on the opposite and she didn't like me so she wasn't my favorite aunt but still... She was 81.

Sorry to hear that Irulan. It's weird isn't it, when a family member dies and even if you didn't really like them much it still feels...something. I don't know if there's a word for it. It's just an important thing that happens that deserves to be thought about a bit.

Yeah sorry Irulan

I'm no expert on these matters but take care of yourself

Thank you both I think that one fragment from "Mistress Pat" by L. M. Montgomery describes it best (I just found this fragment on the net): "Aunt Edith died very suddenly in August. They all felt the shock of it. None of them had ever loved Aunt Edith very much ... she was not a lovable person. But she was part of the established order of things and her passing meant another change."

So I think it's about her being part of the established order of things. She lived long - she turned 81 in January. She never liked me and didn't seem to like anyone maybe but for her only daughter (who in turn didn't seem to care for her mother). Her family was of Ukrainian origin.