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Weather was perfect----and going *home* had its great comfort and yet its very sad moments--
My Aunt Joan is really in bad shape--she can barely walk--the place she lives in (well I cant even find the right words to describe it) but my cousin Mike (aunt joans son) lives with her and does the best he can-
Karen and Susan (cousins--&Aunt Joans daughters) have decent lives--
Karen's hubby( age 46) killed in a head on collision--other driver -drunk-to bad he LIVED!!!
Susie's hubby (age 45) died of a heart attack--
Karen lives with a terrific guy and Susie--works and is alone--
It was *tear* time when I saw the girls---and of course we tried to get all the years in of things we missed and the good times--the funny times we had--when I would get to Fall River-
Then we headed to AETNA ST, and I was really sobbing then---of course the house had some fixing uppers done--and Muscles is the same--a very lonely man--
I couldnt see each room,in the house cus he has the doors locked--(full of junk he says)--and said I to him---*but I wanna see each and every room and feel the fun times* I asked--
Uncle Walter---how could U do this---and then looking up the staircase to Aunt Jean and Uncle Chum's apt. was another heart wrenching sight--boxes and boxes of junk--
YES---Uncle Walter picks up any piece of peoples throw away JUNK and stores it???
BUT in the back there stood the outhouse--of course all locked and sealed--
SO---UNCLE why are U leaving that there??? He laughs~~~
The grounds are all but a bunch of weedy stuff--
I found out that my babcia had 13 kids---and my mom being the 10 one born--
This I knew---I was the first grandchild---the first to get married--the first to have gifted grandma and grandpa their FIRST great-grand children----well heck---I am the oldest~~~too funny~~~~
YES-----things change but in my heart I still see the Old Aetna street--and the humungous bolder that U saw as soon as U turned onto the street--
We spent most of the time with Aunt Joan---
Then we went to see the USS Mass-A-CHEW-sets Battleship that -naturally is grounded there-a BIG son of a gun!!Louie took me up down around--in and out--he was in his glory cus he is an old Salt----(Midway)---and there inscribed on placks--the names of all that were on that ship--including my UNCLE STANLEY-----and I found out that Uncle Stanley didnt fall over a live bomb---as the government informed my grandparents---he was accidentally shot in the STOMACH???? YES---there was something very *NOT RIGHT* with that sad day___
No-one--at that time--knew how/where/what-to do further for more info~~
Well --this was much to share--and if U all read it--thanks--
I thought to myself----*boy--I surely had a great bunch of aunts and uncles---funny--loving and all but two -- are together again having a good time~~~
In the car(coming home)---I layed my head back and just let the tears roll down my cheeks--
Good to be HOME here~~~
Luve Barbara
PSS. for those who dont know--that picture there is me with my Uncle Joe--standing in front of the house on Aetna Street!!
He was 2 years older than me--hated if I called him Uncle--in front of his friends--which I did-
-and who gave me my first cigarette which made me puke my guts out!!
