Hello, Uncle!
Love is the strongest tie.
My Uncle Neil and I were strangers. We had only properly met a month ago. I knew he was five years younger than my mother, which made him forty-seven, but I had only been three years of age when he emigrated to Canada. In the ensuing twenty-two years, he'd only visited twice, once when I was seven and then again when I was twelve. He had unexpectedly returned to England six months ago, but with me living away from home, o...