I always wondered why my first cousin once removed never married, and even now lives with her nearly-90 year old father and her dysfunctional brother in his forties (who also never married).
Talking with my mom recently I heard that on her deathbed, my great aunt made my cousin promise to always take care of her (my cousin's) father and brother.
HOW could a mother do that to a daughter? According to my mom, our cousin (my mom's cousin) has at least twice had a relationship with a man who wanted to marry her...but she didn't wouldn't couldn't due to this deathbed promise.
This particular great aunt was one I always cared for... it is hard for me to imagine her doing something like this.
Families are strange.
1 comment:
add it to the cannon. sometimes i think that's what we're supposed to do.
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