Hi Liz. Hello.

Hello.

You're gone again. You're always gone.

I'm an absent dad.

I never thought of it like this, but you really are an absent dad. It's making me think of

something I wanted to bring up with you that I was thinking about this weekend

because I was in Montreal visiting my family. I think Mila my niece said oh yeah you're like my uncle and I was like I am I kind of

identify more as an uncle than an aunt.

Oh, tell me more.

I'm curious if you feel this way,

obviously as a surrogate aunt,

your brother doesn't have kids,

but you do have many auntie responsibilities in your life.

But I feel like I'm more,

I guess aunt can also be inconsistent,

just kind of parachute in and like

bring a bunch of treats and like go to six flags or we went to the trampoline, not store but kind of,

like it's just like a place filled with trampolines and like giving her ice cream and like all these bad things.

And I am nurturing I guess. Basically if I could just be an uncle I would get a 10 out of 10 and sometimes I feel like as an aunt I'm not always up there like there's some notes.

Okay that's interesting I get what you mean, uncles like dads. I mean men are more playful.

I think this is an incredible generalization, this is a big wide old brush, but it is also biological.

They are, like they're rough-housed and they get down on the ground and play and a lot of women including me hate playing.

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