I'm an older guy...60! Believe it or not, I still have an aunt! Aunt Mary is Dad's older sister. Dad's 80, so I think that Aunt M is about 86. Anyway, she had a very interesting, if unconventional life. Fancy California feller took her out of sleepy coastal Texas in the 40's. Took her to California. That lasted 4 years and two kids. Married a wealthy club owner (said that he was from the Phillipines) a desserty place in California. Met a lot of celibrities (Sinatra among them). Oiy, of course, that guy passed on or was passed over, and she found a secure life with a nice guy. Damn if he didn't die, also. Anyway, the 1990's found her in a trailer in Napa. She now lives with her older daughter and her husband.

We never lived very close, since she lived in California, and I lived in New Orleans. She is my Godmother, but the first time that I remember meeting her was in 1985, when I was 38.

She's having just a hell of a lot of medical problems now. I wish that there was something I could do. I'm gonna miss her a lot.

Dave