...of why, out of 27 first cousins, only half a dozen have any contact at all with their parents. Violent SOBs like you tend to die alone, too pig-ignorant to understand that there's a REASON their kids don't want to be around them and won't permit them to see their grandchildren.

I had no contact with my father from about 1982 until he died in 1997. I was a happier person then, and I wanted to sing and dance at his funeral. I should have. There were several people there that would have loved to join in.