Cousins

Just returned from hot and humid but quaint and classy Fairhope, Alabama near Mobile Bay where we enjoyed the wedding of the beautiful older daughter of our best friends followed by a spontaneous reunion of family on the paternal side of my wife Mimi’s family.

Hayes and we visited the family where he met an adorable five year old son of a cousin twice removed from Mimi, making the boys cousins. They hit it off immediately as only adventuresome little boys are want to do.

After some play time, Hayes who loves numbers said to his newly acquainted relative, “I have five cousins and you are my sixth cousin.” Cousins in our family typically end up close friends for life.

Duchenne was privately discussed among us adults but never got in the way of those little boys’ playing and bonding. The dream killer had a bad day. No sadness or limitations that day.

Renewed goal: To support and encourage researchers, donors, and Duchenne families to do what they can to ensure that Duchenne has many more bad days, going forward.

Kindly yours,

Papa from Tennessee