My uncle brought his bird, Joy, with him.

My aunt came in from Alaska, with tales of “predatory lesbians,” and hitting a moose with he family van (it died because it was 30 below and the blood froze him to the ground). She calls her husband ‘my Buddy’ and when she did it tonight I almost cried.

My aunt made a mixtape with the music they grew up on. Englebert Humperdinck, Jimmy Buffett, Joni Mitchell. When Neil Diamond ‘Hot August Night’ came on they all sang along.