Your story is so interesting! A brother-in-law who isn’t perfect but has found a place in the world for himself.
I have a friend who is a landscape painter and makes a living doing handywork for all the elderly widows in his town. They love him and he’s very honest and helpful. He would have loved to have been a famous artist but it just didn’t happen.
Watching the Hatfields and McCoys over the last few days and was struck by how similar some things were to the way I grew up. My extended family made up a pretty fair percentage of my hometown. I lived less than two blocks from my grand mother and great grandmother and had all kinds of aunts uncles and cousins around all the time.