The reason
Justin and
Justine came up was because Mom was telling me about
Barry's brother
Gary's suicide by hanging. He had been addicted to crystal meth since his teens, which had caused a paralytic form of Parkinson's Disease. Besides the stress of being addicted for umpteen years, the family thinks he just couldn't take not being able to move and walk easily anymore.
The
really disturbing thing is that either
Gary's 15-year-old son or nephew (Mom was a little unclear about that; and if it's latter, then the boy was the son of Dad's ex-wife, who obviously must've remarried) found him hanging in the garage.
And, yes,
Barry and
Gary are another awful sib set. The family, needless to say, is nuts in more than one way.
Miranda
Proud adopter of 15 PPs. See my profile for their names.