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Thank you my FRiend! It was absolutely wonderful. My dad was so surprised - he had absolutely no clue whatsoever. he was just beside himself, he was so excited. and after all these years I actually discovered, I actually do like my brother - at least I do like the man he is now. He and I just never got along. Over the course of the past year and a half, my attitude toward him had definitely mellowed because he and my father have actually become friends and I was very happy about that - because those 2 were not quite as oil and water as brother and me, but pretty close to it.

One of my father’s wishes, since he and I got back together after about 17 years, was for my brother and I to at least get along. He was willing to accept it wasn’t going to happen and was thankful that we at least accepted each others part in dad’s life and weren’t going to be causing anyone any grief.

A whole lot of family dynamics changed last weekend and I honestly lay all the blame for that on my 14yo daughter. she and my brother hit it off as if they had known each other forever and they only met for the first time when we got off the plane last Saturday. It was a beautiful thing.

sorry for my rambling - I’m still sort of stunned about the whole thing.