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In reply to the discussion: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11-22-1963 Where Were You? [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,503 posts)My brother is a die hard Republican. Greedy. All about $$ with him.
I don't initiate conversations with him any more. It's ok. He's in California and I'm in NC. Several of his grown kids are Dems.
Years later I discovered my mother's brother and his wife were Dems. My aunt was very active in the CA State Dem party during the 60's. When Bobby was assassinated, it hit her really hard.
Had some wonderful times as an adult visiting with my aunt and uncle during the 90's and first decade of this century. I really miss them both. Their deaths left more of a hole in me than when my parents died in 2000 and 2002.
My mother and my aunt never got along. My mother never had a nice thing to say about my aunt, but she adored my uncle, her little brother. I don't know how he managed to put up with her all those years when she was so cool and even hurtful to his wife, my aunt.
Families can be very strange.