Dear nycartist:

You are welcome. About war and peace, you wrote: “they ‘MUST’ see that they were wrong and come back to make peace”. The definition of the word peace is: the absence of war, the absence, or freedom from war, violence and conflict.

To have peace with your former friend and uncle then, does not mean to be friends with them/ to have good relationships with them. It simply means to not be engaged in war with them. So, if they are absent from your life and there are no interactions with them, good or bad, then.. there is peace with them already, as is.

anita