When I was a kid, my parents would very often visit my mother's sister Lois, who lived on a farm near Columbus, OIhio, about a 90-minute drive from Middletown. My dad's brother Jay had married Irene, the sister of Harold Clevenger, who married my mother's sister Lois, so he and my dad were close, and my dad liked spending a weekend helping with the farmwork - shades of his childhood in Appalachia - and my mother and Lois were like twins.