“How do you know the deceased?”

“Well, here’s the thing, it really all started when this lady came up to my door. She was like only a few years younger than me and she told me her name, Alice, and introduced herself as my sister. Alice told me that we had several first cousins I didn’t know about and had met our aunt. Our aunt had told Alice that her brother, our father, was very ill and would likely not make it far enough to meet us. This was very strange especially when he became better.”

“Right because your father is speaking with Alice”

“Exactly. Now he’s better but a lot of people reconnected with him and with us while he was sick including, his half brother. His half brother is married to our mother’s second cousin so it’s sort of a small world.”

“So that’s who it was- is that’s passed away?”

“That’s correct so he’s sort of an uncle in a lot of ways I think. I haven’t fully taken in everything yet.”