May have? Wow! I HOPE that doesnt mean that you are planning to put her through more agony and abuse to prove it! You and your Sig other at the time may want to bear the burden of Proving it since u let 17 years pass how stressful for your child esp the part that she needed to EMAIL her dad! SOMEHOW there is shame in that.

I'm so sorry. I made a complete break from my family years ago for a couple of years, it was absolutely the right thing to do at the time. Then, several years later, we reconnected after the birth of my first daughter.....and the death of my brother. It was so hard at first, it took us almost a year to not be nervous around each other. In the time apart my grandmother that had lived with us for years had also died some time before.

It takes a lot of courage, and risk of getting your heart broken again, but since obviously they didn't reach out at the time your mother passed and they probably won't anytime soon, the most you can do is try to find the one that you might have the best chance at talking to, and try to reconnect, maybe even if it's just an occasional thing to keep the lines open. If it means a lot to you to reconnect, don't give up if they reject you at first.....when I first heard of my brothers death, I went to my moms house, and she tried to close the door in my face, but I knew she was alone and hurting, so I made her let me in, and we grew from there. Today she lives with me and we couldn't be closer. Even if we are angry and hurt, we still sometimes need those that we loved for so long. Almost anything can be fixed.

Hope everything works out.

I thought it was funny

A few personal observations about what happens when a man falls in love:


When you sit at a green light not realizing it's turned....

Dialing 6 of her 7 numbers before you hang up...

When you realize it's 2:00 AM and not only have you not been to bed, you haven't even moved off the couch and the TV's not on...yet you're wide awake.

When you talk out loud and no one is there...and then you do it and people ARE around.

Her faults are charming, her perfections exquisite in your eyes.

Every other song on the radio applies to you and her.

Cozumel is suddenly a romantic getaway idea, not Spring Break.

Going for a walk in the middle of the night with no destination in mind, leads you to her sidewalk anyway.

You realize that "love", "hope", and "desire" aren't words just thrown about on the Oxygen Channel.

Cooking for yourself involves more than just a frozen pizza.

You notice colors. In everything.

yeah i think you ladies call it , your smothering me you big foreheaded bald co-dependent mamas boy, with no life and no future till you met me and your so lucky to have me , you big jerk give me some money and go away .

That's OK Jo, still buy you dinner, anytime.

Because we like to show off our assets!

just gentily come up behind her....AND GRAB HER IN THE BISCUITS!!! Thats what I would do

I sold some ebay stuff to Jimmy Johnson.

A beautiful woman
Out there
Waiting to hold
our baby
Doesn't even know
it yet
I don't know
who yet
Either way
It's a rush

With the
hoops that burn
I will
Jump through them
No sweat
Except for one
The one
She makes me
Wear on
My special finger

I'll have another Bud Light please.