Last week at church my nephew (19 years old) was walking past me. I smiled, not sure how he would respond, but would have been ok if he ignored me (like my 16 year old neice did moments earlier). You can imagine how delighted I was when he smiled back and walked towards me and gave me a hug.

On Thursday my brother-in-law was sentenced to 8 years in prision for his crimes. My understanding is that he'll most likely serve at least 75% of that sentence. His entire family was in the court room (even his 3 children) when the judge told him "your family does not want to see what you wrote, said, planned....look at them and know how badly your actions have hurt them".

I'm not sad that he is in jail, but....I'm in no way happy about it either. It is just so so sad....

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