Re: holly nw/jack p
That's fair. So long as you can turn it on and off like that. I can't. I get maudlin. It's very depressing, I have to go and do something fairly impressively inappropriate to get over it.
Yes. Newt and I were never, I don't think you could call it close? We didn't grow up that way. To be honest, our family wasn't so much family as a collection of odds and ends, some of whom were foul to one another. But we were feeling our way around. It was nice to have family I called family, nearby. He's quieter than I am, dryer, humor-wise. Gentler with people. Really, we're opposites but I rather liked his advice.