I just learned that my Aunt Ruth died today, my mother’s older sister. She was 85 and was in rehab after a fall.
Sorry to hear that. Hows your mother taking it?
Prayers for comfort..
I’m sorry to hear of your aunt. It’s always so hard for oldsters to recover after body trauma.
I’ve lost a sister and a brother; both were old enough to be my parents when I made my entry into the world. They were adults before I ever knew them and as a result, they were mostly strangers.
I tried to get close to my brother but he resented me — guilt by association, because “my dad took his mother away from his dad.” And it doesn’t matter that I was still seven or eight years away from coming to Earth. He died of pancreatic cancer many years later.
My sister, I had better luck knowing. We pretty much bonded on her birthday in 1980, and were friends until she died. But we were not “close friends.” And she died in her sleep a few years ago.
So I’m always empathetic when people lose a family member, no matter how close or far apart they were.