Surmise: Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence.
I surmise that the best thing I can do for these people is to leave them alone. Nobody is asking me to come back, for god's sake - when my sister needs help she usually speaks up. And when she speaks up she basically says "deal with dad however you want - I'm taking the week off." She doesn't complain about all the work she does; she isn't a martyr; she isn't passive-aggressive - I know exactly where I stand, which is pretty far back in line. What's the matter with that scenario.
I'm helping people as I think they should be helped, praying that they be cured of this or that irritating character trait. Which they seem to be fine with, by the way. I go to an Eleventh Step meeting every Saturday where we emphasize how stupid this kind of behavior is. Not sticking with me, apparently, which is why we read the same fucking things over and over.
I'm taking a little trip north of The Old City to my parents' childhood home to attend a much beloved and highly nostalgic county fair. Because I'm not sure when I'll next be back I got in touch with some peripheral second cousins and great-uncles to see if they'd be around, and they were thrilled to hear from me. We've gone back and forth several times. THESE are the people I should be in touch with.
Clearly, I'm not too smart.
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