Reconnecting with my DNA, after 20 years

His first words to me

-----Original Message-----
From: Ucle Randy
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:50 AM
To: Lisa
Cc: Patty
Subject: Your father's younger brother


Mckiernan...is that Irish?

Over the years I have only heard adventure stories of you...and of your mother as well. Maybe now I can get the real story. I have one myself I'd like to tell. For instance...last year I had my 11 year old, Larry ( after your father ) google his own name, Lawrence Jefferson Rousey. The results led to a web-site that told me that Lawrence Jefferson Rousey, the son of
Julius Eugene Rousey and Thelma Mae Morey had died in 1980...is that the year? I don't remember numbers very well.

Anyway, Larry was fascinated and just kept clicking away and soon we were in the 16th century in Oslo Norway where a doctor is recorded as having the
name Rousey after his parents moved there from England.
I'm skeptical of the story though. When I clicked on "Julius Eugene Rousey" it told us he and Thelma Mae only two children...William Eugene and Christopher John. I think Larry and I both learned a little something about internet research.

I look at your stunning photographs and I see what beautiful beautiful parents you have. I married a women that looked like your mother did to me
when I was 19. And I always wished I looked like my brother Larry. He thought he was classically handsome, a real heart throb, a dashing cutie-pie
with a smile that made you want to see it again and again and again.

You have that smile...as does my little Larry.

Its 215 in the morning. I'm prepping for the graveyard shift that starts tomorrow night by staying up as late as possible tonight but I'm beginning
to nod, I must close but before I do I want to tell you it means a lot to me that your mom and you have surfaced...though I never really felt you
gone...just out there somewhere...doing what we all do, living our lives.

Here's something I'd like to know. When did you learn to dive? Were you really at one time the youngest certified diver in the States? Were you on
like an Evening Magazine show?

And whats up with the Dating Show? We get dating shows up here. Which one
is it?

Till the next

I am very truly your

Uncle Randy

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