She is actually my maternal grandmother's cousin — they were both Salisburys. My maternal grandparents (the parents of
Aunt Elaine, being my grandmother's cousin, is my first cousin twice removed, and
She and Eric were on a family journey. It had started some time back when the two of them had decided to go find Eric's long-lost brother. He was adopted by Elaine's daughter at the age of 5-1/2, and his older brother was adopted into a different family. They'd lost contact about 10 or 15 years ago. Elaine and Eric did some detective work, tracked down his brother, and eventually were able to reconnect. They'd set out on a road trip from her home in Altadena, CA to see the brother in southern Oregon, and decided as long as they were driving to visit relatives in the Bay Area, Corvallis, Olympia, Wenatchee and Helena.
As I said to

Me reading to



The two of them on the porch.

Elaine,

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