Nine years ago Kay and I were married, on that day our lives changed in many ways. Each of us had been married before, we lost our spouses within a week of each other, together we had been married 82 years. We had a lot of memories and a lot of things from our past but more important we acquired a new future full of new memories and things.
One of the most important things I gained was a new family. Three new brothers and sister-in-laws, nieces, nephews, and cousins by the bunches. One niece has seven kids, after nine years I finally remember their names, maybe in another nine years I will be able to put the proper name to the right face, I'm trying.
Like me, the immediate family is aging, changing daily as we all grow older. Kay has lost two for her brothers, most recently her oldest brother Bob passed away. In these short nine years I have grown to love my extended family, I have laughed with them and cried with them, I have watched them suffer and watched them grow. I love them all.
I have four families now, my own two sons, daughter in law and two wonderful grand kids. Linda's sister and niece and cousins. My two brothers and sister and a whole bunch of cousins and one uncle and now Kay's family. Turns out they are, in my eyes, all alike, some one is always needing something, someone always has a problem and someone is always there to help. They are my family and I love them.
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