It's Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for this subreddit. How is everyone doing?

Above all else, I am thankful for my girl and her daughter (who after knowing about this girl since before she was even born 12 years ago, I just met for the first time.) I dreamed of a totally unrealistic future growing up and even THEN I couldn't have imagined what the past year has brought me. If suffering all these years meant I would finally get this, then it was 100% worth it.

It's kind of a rough day though since it's 3.5 years since my mother died, and I spent it by myself looking at old pictures from back in the day. This is the side with all the alcoholism/suicides (I don't know if anyone else is diagnosed with anything) that I've tried to distance myself from over the past three years. That turned out to be a big mistake. These pictures remind me how close we were when my grandmother was still alive. After my mom died (3.5 years ago... today!) my sisters and I have lost the one parent we all shared. My mom's brother sent $100 last week for my birthday (two months ago but I didn't question it) and his wife died right after the lockdown started. Without a doubt she was one of the most important people in my life, and my uncle made sure to write in the card that "you were her favorite, she would not want you to forget that."

So I made an Instagram post with old pictures of everyone (not my dad... lol) and tagged my uncle and my four brother-like cousins, wishing them all a happy Thanksgiving. And on a day like this, I can easily say it was one of the most meaningful posts I've ever made on social media.

I'm going to get back to my uncle separately. Maybe I should show him the new limited edition Nikes I bought with the money he gave me, haha.

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