January 22nd, 1995 Laura, my family's hero, dies. January 23rd, 1995 My dad receives his heart. In 2008, January 24th, my father had a stroke. It was the first bad thing that had happened to him since his…

A couple of you may have seen one of my previous posts about my cousin, Matt. He got back from Iraq and never bothered to call me, stop by, or even acknowledge that I still existed. He came home partied, hooked …