You get to keep some goodies with the obligation to help clear the clutter for the family.
I'm glad you made the effort to keep the connection, he held onto it too.
In the end that's all we get but that matters most.
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
