Yesterday got a call from my cousin telling me that my Grand Uncle (舅公) had pass away. It is amazing that while me and my mother is increasingly distance ourself from the extended family, my two lady cousins (one on my mom side and one on my father side) are the one that is keeping the connection.
While my Grandmom is still alive, he will at least visit his elder sister once a year. And more often when we are still living in the cross street old house. Loud and macho, liquor never far, all his hair combed back James Dean style with so much hair cream that it is glossy and shiny. My mother on the way back home from the wake, in the rare emotional moment, reveal that on the night of his marriage, my grandmom was crying all night because he is almost a son as much as a brother to her (grandmom lose a couple of son, miscarriage and early death).
Goodbye, Grand Uncle. I will miss you. And although my mom wouldn't admit, I sure she does too.
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