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Originally Posted by Gord
Business year end, trade show, store renovations, kids, courses, home renos, rental property problems for my aunt with dementia, government bureaucracy, business being good, setting up a new business and lots of paperwork.
It's been busy.
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I miss my aunt. :-( The last thanksgiving we had together, I had baked a cheesecake. It was actually her brother's (my uncle's) secret recipe. I was only able to get it from him because he wanted mom's recipe for baklava. I heard mom giving him the recipe one day over the phone, and I'm like, "Mom, stop! Don't just give it to him! TRADE!" Mom didn't listen and gave him the recipe anyway. But he took pity on me and still gave me the recipe.
Anyway, after dinner, my sister was cutting it and passing slices around. Aunt got one of the first slices. I guess she took a couple of bites and set it down somewhere ... and forgot all about it. She was asking my sister if she could have a slice. My sister said, "Didn't I already give you one?" (She was confused, not being mean or stingy or rude. We all loved our aunt very much. She was a second mom to us.)
Aunt got a confused look on her face like she didn't understand the question and asked again for a slice. My sister, still confused, said that she had already given her one. I interjected, with a strong hint in my tone, "Give her another slice."
My sister looked at me with confusion, then she got what was happening and cut her another slice.
In fairness to my sister, she lives far away and wasn't here everyday to be reminded of aunt's deterioration. She knew about it, but she never really saw the consequences of it. So that's why she was kind of slow on the uptake.