“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
~ Victor Hugo
I have eight uncles, all brothers to my dad. Pictured here, left to right, are Phillip Ray, Danny, James Trent, Gregory, and Darrell. Papaw used to joke that he had a baseball team of boys and a basketball team of girls. That’s 14 children total. In those dozen-plus children were two sets of twins: a set of girls, and a set of boys (both fraternal). Mamaw’s sister, Pauline, had 12 children. To her, the twins counted as a single birth each, and therefore, they were even on the birth count. Mamaw disagreed, rightfully. I can’t imagine life without any one of my aunts and uncles. They’re each so unique, and important.
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