Rest in Peace cousin...and thoughts on Mortality.
There's a meme/picture out on the web about cousins being your first friends and how they are the only ones who understand our family. In our case it was true. In some ways...I didn't learn to make friends until I was older...because I already had 12 great friends. And then Thursday happened... “This isn’t supposed to happen to us” It was my first thought hearing the news. “We’re still the kids…we can’t die…what happened???” At 2:30 on May 26, 2016…the world changed. The news hit me that one of the original 12 Short Grandkids was gone. Liz, Michelle, Wendy, Dawn, Betty, Kathy, Billy (Me), Nate, Steve, Chuck, Sara and Beth. We were the original 12 Short Grandkids. More came later; Matthew, Mark, Brett, Joey, Roxanne and Danielle…but the original dozen of us spent a lot of our formative years together. Christmases, weekends, birthdays, "happy because" days...all of us were a unit. We grew up together. P...