I truly don't mean to BROADCAST my misery (which is 100% of why I categorically REFUSE to do FAKEbook - I'll live my life, not BROADCAST it) but, WOW, it's been rough going these past few months, totally exacerbated by the fact that I truly am the SOLE conservative now within my huge family; hearing the constant harangues about Virtue Signalling Masks, yada yada; getting soundly beaten down when I insist on calling it the CHINESE PLAGUE.

Dad lost his only sister 10/6 in the MO hometown, then mom's late sister's hubbie in their MO hometown 11/15, then dad 11/24, then dad's remaining sibling my namesake uncle in Tempe AZ 12/12 then I find MY mother deceased 12/17. I'm still trying to process ALL of it - just boom boom boom; dealing with the absolute MADNESS of the estate (mom dying within 3 weeks of dad has made legalities/bureaucratic necessities insanely complex), etc.

Thank GOD for this forum and wonderful people such as yourself with your heartfelt condolences. My Catholic faith - which I formally rejoined upon moving back to the hometown after my Wild Years in The City - has been a bedrock and pleased my cradle-to-grave mother immensely as all other sibs fell away and never came back.