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My brother from North Carolina and other thoughts from the week just passed

My parents were married for 15 years and had three children. They divorced and my mother went on to remarry and have three more kids while my father remarried and had one child. Thus I have a “full” brother and sister, three “half” siblings from my mother’s remarriage and a “half” sibling brother from my father’s remarriage. Oh, and then there’s the sister between me and my older sister who was given up for adoption and was Jewish, I don’t know why but it’s a hell of a story and I don’t make it up.

My father raised me, an oddity back in those days for a man to get custody of his children. He wasn’t a perfect man but he was a great man, interesting as all get out. He married a wonderful woman who was a great stepmother to me and I helped raise her only child and I loved him with all my heart and soul.

And, indeed, Jimmy was in my life most of it, he was even the best man at my wedding to my beloved, now deceased, husband. My awful daughter lived with Jimmy and his wife for a couple of years and was a nanny to his kids.

I doubt I even ever mentioned this brother, Jimmy, who is about 14 years younger than me. He hasn’t been in my life since I joined FreeRepublic because something happened and he ended up wandering the coast, homeless, often living out of his car. His wife left him and he was so heartbroken that his life fell apart is as best I understand it.

For the last few years brother Jimmy and his new wife have been on Facebook and I’d read of his life and wonder….WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING IN NORTH CAROLINA????

So last week I get a Facebook message from his new wife, who he’d met when he was stationed in Fort Bragg and who he re-met up with during his homeless trek along the coast. She said she and Jimmy were coming up this way and they wanted to stop by and visit me.

My knees buckled. My heart swelled. Dear Lord I’d love to see him again, that child I was raised with, frankly the only sibling I have (and bear in mind I got a slew of them including the adopted Jewish sister) who I felt close to growing up.

We had a wonderful time, going out to dinner, laughing and hugging. Jimmy did right well for himself despite his many years of homelessness, I still don’t know what that’s about. We took pictures and….well yeah, we talked politics. You guys will love it.

He was going to his son’s wedding up in Merryland and goodness, how I’d love to see them again.

Anyway, as I anxiously awaited his arrival I fretted. I had no idea about Jimmy’s politics and dear Lord….North Carolina? EVERYBODY’s TALKING ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA!

So after he was here about an hour I mentioned that NC was a big deal this election year. I said it softly, hoping he, and/or his wife….a great lady….weren’t Hillary voters.

Jimmy launched into a rant y’all would have loved. “Yeah they have commercials on 24 hours a day but the candidate I like might lose in NC.”

I breathed a sigh of relief. HE WAS A TRUMP GUY!

Jimmy told me how disgusted he was driving through Virginia. He said all he saw were Hillary signs, everywhere, everywhere. Y’all might remember I mentioned that same thing in a recent post; that in northern Virginia they had thousands….THOUSANDS of Hillary signs everywhere. They were so obviously placed there with a plan. At times you’d pass by fields FILLED with Hillary signs. No normal person would do that. For miles in northern Virginia….Hillary signs. It would make you nuts.

So we had a great time discussing the election and God sent my brother back to me. Like I said, he’s remarried and he even just bought a new house. He had to go through rehab programs and helped with the homeless for three years until he met Tina.

Anyway, they are heading back to NC for the election and they hope that Trump carries their state.

A few other notes from this past week.

Heh, went to church yesterday and they had the Knights of Columbus guy speak before mass, recruiting and stuff. After he spoke, we have a normal cantor who gives announcements before mass. Seems the Knights guy ran off with her note page when he gathered his documents and left the podium. We saw the Cantor running down the aisle, an older woman. We didn’t know what she was doing but it was a bit of a hoot. At some point she walked back to the altar and stood behind the podium.

“Well it seems my announcements walked off,” she said, fretful and not knowing what to do, as it appeared. “Be sure to vote this coming Tuesday”, she said. Then she looked around some. “Oh and turn your clocks back tonight.”

And that was the end of it and hey, maybe you had to be there. But it was just the funniest thing. At some point the Knights guy came back with her announcement but it was too late.

Goodness did y’all hear Hillary with that screaming yesterday. Just as it began raining? She sounded and looked like a crazy woman.

I do not believe, no matter how many times it’s posted on FreeRepublic, that Hillary is in any way involved with a child sex ring though I suppose it’s possible ole Bill is.

Finally, time for y’all to make predictions. I’ll start. I predict Trump will win, not by a landslide, but handily.

I do NOT think this is wishful thinking although I do wish it.

They’ve got today and tomorrow and the more crap about Hillary comes out the more she’s going to drop. Tomorrow should really be interesting.