Dear Jay:

Thank you for your kind words, respecting me for what I did, for what many people frown on.

If your mother’s interest was on your sister’s mind she wouldn’t have ordered the construction work on the house while your mother lives there, just as you mentioned before.

If you don’t have a financial interest in the shrinking and yet to be shrunk inheritance by your mother, better remove yourself from the whole ordeal, that is what you suggested you might do,  if I understand correctly.

So  often, Family is just another Foul word (what do you think about this line, reads poetic to me)- well, there is nothing you can do about who your sister is, that is, about about what she values (deceiving, taking unfair advantage of others, etc.) and what she doesn’t value (Honesty, trust, justice).

The fact that you may have some similar facial features because of genetics, and the fact that you have been in each other’s lives for 55 years, these don’t matter really when there is such a disparity in what each one of you values.

anita