Thanks for sharing your thoughts. When one gets to be my age everything is pretty-much gone (at least that's the way it is for me) unless one has (adult) children & perhaps grand (or even great-grand) children. My family-of-origin has all been gone for decades.

I haven't been back, for many years, to where I grew up & have no intention of ever doing so. I'm quite certain I wouldn't recognize the place. The house I lived my teenage years in burned down decades ago. I have no idea what's there now. Most of my childhood memories have disappeared too... except for the bad ones that continue to haunt me. For the most part, I'm glad it's all gone. Most of it wasn't worth the powder to blow it to... um... Hades... so to speak. Now it's just a matter of waiting around for the final curtain, as they say... sure is taking its sweet time getting here.