'After My Uncle Died, We Discovered The Truth About His Life'
an experience I have written about at length in the years since, and my re-entry conditions prevented me to from heading to Cleveland where my uncle spent the last years of his life.
Any telephone conversations with him were cursory no matter what his health was throughout his life.My uncle was incapable of speaking for months before he passed in 2020, and although my uncle's husband could have told me they tied the knot sooner, I'm glad he was brave enough to ask me to include their legal relationship in my uncle's final literary sendoff.
It meant that my uncle could finally announce a spouse who was proximate, present and oriented toward him.In truth, I don't think that the wider family was particularly shocked.
It was the beginning of a pandemic and my parents, then 80 and 82, were more concerned with their own survival than anything else.
