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perc-o-prince

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So, when my Mom died and Rich and I were sleeping on the pull-out in the livingroom that night, my brother kicked the bed in the AM and asked if I was trying to give my father another heart attack. He was obviously referring to the fact that Rich and I were in the same bed.<P>
BACKSTORY: I went down to visit my parents in PA on my motorcycle a couple of years before I met Rich. It was a surprize visit, and they didn't know I got my M license. My father borrowed a neighbor's bike and took me on a tour of the town. He had a heart attack later that night (coincidentally). I didn't know it then, but my bro blamed me.

Fast forward to last year when my Dad died. His sister, my Aunt Linda, and her three kids, were there. The kids were brats the last time I saw them, about 20 years ago. I expected a chore-of-a-time getting through talking to them. Despite the horrible circumstances, we got along great, they loved Rich, and I received a belated Christmas card from one of them today (wrong address and took a long time for the whole trip).

My cousin Tara now has a tee shirt business and I didn't know she was as cool as she was when I saw her a year ago. I'm including a link for her site below because I think you may like some of the slogans on the demo shirts!

I guess the whole reason for posting this is to let some folks know that people are not always who you think they are, especially if you have pre-conceived notions of who they may be based on previous contact... family or not!!!

Chuck
 
Cute.

I won't bore you with stories about my brother, let's just say you have my understanding and genuine sympathy.

As Reese Witherspoon put it, "we're only related on our parent's side"...

I love her T-Shirts.

Thanks for sharing!

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

As far as family goes, I treat them BETTER than friends/acquaintances.

Much harder to get rid of family that does you wrong.

And as you implied Chuck, people evolve and mature. Sadly sometimes family sticks to older remembrances of past behavior, that is no longer applicable.

In our situation we have to be 200% better in all ways to get half the respect.
 
It is tough

When you have homophobes in the immediate family.

Worse when they are gaming your parents and they don't see what's going on.

Warning to all children out there. If mommy asks you whether you'd like a new baby, the only right answer is:
But you promised me a dawg! I wanna dawg!

Any other answer is wrong, wrong, wrong.
 

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