Bert and I
I met Bert at my wedding. He was introduced as my wife’s uncle. Later I found out that he wasn’t really a relative but a c***dhood family friend. Bert and his wife seemed happy and were cordial and interesting dinner companions. He was at least 20 years older than us and he quite disappeared from our lives as we moved ahead with buying our home and raising our family. He reappeared just about a year ago again at a family function. His wife had passed due to cancer several years prior and he now...