Adding insult to injury

Terry's mother has been staying with her oldest son and his family. She left her house, the one in which Terry died, saying she could never live in it again. "Three's enough," she said.

In addition to Terry on Christmas Day, her middle son died in it (cancer) seven years ago and her husband (heart attack) a few years before that.

"The Mayor," her oldest brother (and Herself's father) has been checking on the house daily. Yesterday he discovered a small hole had been broken through one of the windows.

After reaching through the hole to unlock the door, person or persons unknown had emptied the house of food, clothing, the television and anything else they could lay their hands on right down to the paper towels.

Police are investigating.

Later: (01/04/06)

A rather dysfunctional family has lived up the road a piece for ages. The mother's always been a slovenly pill-head drunk. Her now 20ish-year-old son, always slow with other emotional and mental problems, has now also developed a fondness for crack. (He has an older sister who did what she could to keep things under control, until she finally just bailed out years ago by getting married at 16.)

Mama saw "The Mayor" and told him she thought she might have some of Terry's mother's stuff in her house. It was all in her son's room. He went over to take a look.

Not sure how much has already been sold or traded for the next "fix" but, yep.