Good lord - these people are obsessed!
How can Andrea say those things when all you've done is pay compliments to her here on CC?
Frank, don't let all the attention you've received go to your head.
I dunno, but I've decided to re-baptize Andrea "franksolich's sister-in-law", much along the same lines as Skins being "franksolich's fellow alum."
It's just really odd.
The real sister-in-law, of course went to God while in her late 40s, having been long afflicted with the ailments of the too-easy, too-comfortable, too-secure, too-affluent, of a life.
We didn't much care for each other, but she took it a great deal more than I did.
I mean, I respected her as the wife of an older brother of mine, and the mother of some nephews, but really, we had nothing in common, and so all that was necessary was a formal politeness, courtesy, between us.
Not everybody is meant to get along with everybody else, and in such cases, better to be indifferent rather than hostile.
I did all the usual polite-but-distant stuff, greeting her at family gatherings (usually, unfortunately, funerals), remembering her on her birthday and at Christmas (and not just a signed card, but with three or four paragraphs of hand-written kind sentiments therein), and answered any queries she made of me, although admittedly sometimes only vaguely so. She was a sister-in-law of mine, nothing more than that.
For some reason, she thought our association should be more than that.
Uh-uhh.
And so while I maintained my gentlemanly indifference--I surely didn't want anything bad to happen to her--she on her side got really hostile about it.
Regrettably, by the time she went to God (I was still rather young myself), the hostility was still there, but I'm defiantly confident God has since gotten her straight; not everybody is meant to get along with everybody else, and better to be merely indifferent, than hostile.
Andrea's very much like that sister-in-law.