“Aunt Gloria, actually… You still care a lot about my grandfather, right?” Marcus asked carefully on the other end of the phone.

Gloria laughed lightly. “Marcus, if I said no, would you feel bad?”

Marcus replied, “No, Aunt Gloria.”

“Marcus, you are a good child, I will always acknowledge you as my nephew because biologically, you and I are connected by blood. We are very close. And, you are different from your grandfather and your father; you never rejected me. Not only that, you… You even