re: #150 wrenchwench

Are they still with us? Are you in communication with them?

Mom died in 1996 in an accident on a trip to the Grand Canyon that also took out her father, and injured her two sisters and my father, but they recovered.

My father passed away in 2015. I have a racist stepmother who would’ve fit in better with Dad’s family than Mom did. I don’t have anything to do with her, either.

I escaped by getting married at 23 and moving at 25 to Texas for several years, then relocating 6-8 hours away from them at 29. Eventually, we moved to New Mexico when I was 38.

My youngest brother escaped to Southwestern Virginia, then Indiana, then out here to New Mexico.

Our middle brother - who I often describe as a cross between Earl Hickey from “My Name is Earl” and Michael Kelso from “That 70’s Show” - never really escaped and I wouldn’t wish his life on anyone. He has to deal with our stepmother on a regular basis.