Daryl wrote --

>   As soon as my brother reached 18, he moved out. I moved out when I got married, but moved back in to what was my parents house a little more than a year before my Mom died.

  I lived into the same building as my mother my first year of college, in
an apartment on the floor above her.  
  Then when I moved back here I stayed at her place about a month until I
found an apartment.
 
>  JM>    But Sissy was a tough old bird who could handle herself, being a tomboy and all.
> 
>   I never knew it took women forever to get ready, and they had to "sit
> for everything" in the bathroom...because I grew up with a brother.

  Sissy was 25 years my senior (father's first marriage) and more of an
aunt than a sister.  She had been on her own for years, married and separated,
etc.
  She only lived with the family that time from 1958-63.  She moved to the
DC area in November, 1963, and other than a Christmas card that year never
hear from her again.  Until I read her obit a few years ago.

>  JM>   He and Leona were high school sweethearts and still together after 63 years.
> 
>   That's fantastic. This coming Monday would've been my parents 69th
> wedding anniversary, had they lived.

  His son Chuck has been married to the same woman for about 40 years.
  His daughter married once and a widow since '01.
  Joe
  
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