For twenty five years after my mother died, my aunt had nothing to do with my family. She refused visits and did not answer letters. I still don’t know why.
Some possible reasons: my father in those days was a first-class bully, famed for tyranny and rages.
Six weeks after my mother died, my father announced his remarriage. He called up my mother’s mother--a bedridden woman who'd outlive my mother by less than a year--to ask for her blessing.
He didn’t end up getting married, but still--he’d pretty well blasted through his popularity.
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