
My father used to drag my sister and I out to Huntington, Long Island to visit his father (“gramps”) and his brother (“Uncle Al”) a handful of weekends every year. I struggle to remember a single interaction with gramps—it never seemed like he had any fondness for children and he died when I was 13—but I have warm enough memories of Uncle Al. He lived in a house that felt impossibly big; not only…

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