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Some of you might have noticed I haven't been here for the past few weeks. It's partly due to my chaotic life, and the fact that I live my life far from home, but mostly it has to do with a tragedy that I'm still trying to process.
My sister's son died today at the oh so very young age of 25. I carried him as a baby, we spent time together as families, my kids were best friends ,with he and his sister, from the earliest of ages. We spent every holiday together; the easter egg hunts at my parent's camp, Christmas, birthdays. He was a sweet and gentle soul who never should have been in this situation........I weep for my sister, who is forced to bury her oldest son because he made an adult decision by participating in a bar brawl (a simple fight that went very very wrong), without recognizing or understanding all the consequences that choice entailed. A senseless and completely avoidable decision that now is forever going to haunt those he leaves behind.
I want to shout to the heavens.........but instead, I'll just process things for a bit, and eventually come back chipper and cheery as always.
Its amazing what you stumble upon when you're looking for something completely different. I've spent countless hours researching my family history, but always had to stop short when it came to the first generation of my paternal or maternal family, because Ancestry.com is SO freaking expensive if you want an international membership. Well while looking for images of a family crest I know exists, I came upon a castle that I also knew exists. This castle bears my last name, and its located in a village in France that also bears my last name. It was, however, the story that I came upon that shocked me. Apparently, one of my direct descendents is known by most historians as the "Father of the American Revolution". He was directly responsible for convincing Louis XVI to help America in its war against the English, and without his help, we most likely would NOT have won the war. He is also one of the greatest enablers of the French Revolution (oddly enough he withdrew his support when his own castle was repossessed by the revolution go figure). Not only that, but while Benjamin Franklin lived in France, he was his landlord.
Pretty cool I'd say.
