[Theophilus]

Your mother must have had the patience of a saint to not go mama bear on your uncle.

[Verginius Rufus]

Probably true. Of course it was many years later when she told me the story. That was the first time she had met my father's sister and her husband so she was probably worried about the impression she was making on them.

My father and my uncle were friends in the Marines in the South Pacific during the war. When his friend got a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend, my father gave him his sister's address and they began corresponding and got married in 1945. They had two children, 7 grandchildren, and I don't know how many great-grandchildren by now--none of whom would have been born if my father and my uncle had not been friends in the Marines.