No one's disowned in my family yet, they are all pretty tight, I'm the only one who lives far away. Most all my annual vacation trips over the last 35 years have been to visit them and my parents. About fifteen years back my sister's husband left her for his pregnant girlfriend leaving her and their three kids. Best thing he ever did, it let his kids see exactly who he was, afterwards they circled around their mom like musk oxen protecting their own. I would go there in the summer specifically to take them hiking, camping and shooting, the stuff their father shoulda been doing.
Six years back I was up there for a funeral and their father's parked truck got hit by a car and totaled, the lack of concern evinced by his three by then grown children was telling.
