Dad had written back and agreed, even though Mom had been gone almost eight years by that point. She was family, he explained to Daphne and me, and you don’t turn away family, even if that family happens to be a brilliantly eccentric religion and mythology professor with a penchant for wildly patterned caftans.
soo, she's family but was she at the funeral? I mean, she like a daughter to Aunty crazy. What happened in those 8yrs? Why is she almost like a stranger in this sentence??
