Dinhternet

So I got an e-mail from my mom this morn­ing that had some good news and some bad news. The good news is that my dad got a used Honda Civic (’99) off a friend, and that will be my new car.

The bad news is that my cousin’s grand­mother just died. (No, not my grand­mother… My mom and her mom are sis­ters, and her father’s mother was the one that just died.) I didn’t know her that well, but I do remem­ber vis­it­ing her when I lived with my aunt and uncle. The first time we met, she remarked on how big and Buddha-like my ears were, and told me that when I ran for Pres­i­dent, she would vote for me. (Run­ning for Pres­i­dent was her idea, not mine.)

For the last cou­ple of years, she had been suf­fer­ing from some­thing, per­haps a form of Alzheimer’s, or maybe just demen­tia. But yeah… one of the symp­toms she had was the Cap­gras delu­sion, which is the belief that some of the close peo­ple around her had been replaced by look-a-likes. I guess she also became para­noid, and she would phys­i­cally abuse her hus­band — whom she thought was a dupli­cate who was try­ing to harm her — and run away from home. My uncle was the only one who would calm her down, because he was clos­est to her as a child, and I guess he was the only one that she didn’t think was a dupli­cate. Any­way, I know how hard it’s been for their fam­ily, and I hope she’s at peace now.