I know, i know! (waves hand frantically)

One time my neighbor was moving, and her brother showed up to help!

Another time, it was another neighbor's birthday, and her brother came over after work and met us at a restaurant. I was like, this is so nice of you to come all this way! It turned out, he and my brother lived in the same suburb.

And i think, just about everybody's brother shows up for their big fat italian wedding. It didnt even register how humiliating that was. Mine didnt, but he did take me to lunch after my divorce, a few years later.

I must admit, there were about 20 years where there were monthly family dinners as my nephew was growing up, but no contact with my mother resulted in no contact with my nephew, despite my t's insistence that there could be a separate relationship. Like father, like son, i guess.