Remembering Fran

I was very lucky because I had a great mom. I had great parents. She wanted to be a parent and loved every minute of it. All of us kids were really, really different. And so she was able to adapt to that. And I think that’s because she was a creative personality. There were three of us and I was the youngest with two older brothers. And so she had, she went through the boys first, one more time, got me and did she want a girl really bad? She did. She did. So lucky. So you were her Princess. I was. I was. In fact, that’s what my brother, even to this day, calls me. She loved being a mom, and I feel very, very blessed for that. She was the best mom a kid could have. I wish everyone would grow up with a sister like Fran. Fran was unconditional love. I mean, she was she was no nonsense. My dad was military by the time I was 12. I think he had like 7 tours to Korea. So it was my mom, and my mom worked. And so, Fran, Fran pretty much, you know, raised me too. But she was very supportive. She had a way of making you think you could do anything. You know, you think the only reason you can’t do that is because you haven’t tried it, you know, I mean, that was that was the way, you know, she was. So she gave you confidence. And if you fail, it was like, you know, you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you go at it again. But she was very loving, you know, I mean, she, she could be stern, which she had to be because I was a little monster, actually. But you never doubted for a moment that she loved you. Oh, yeah. You know, one of the things she told me as her being a parent and passed on to my kids. And she said you and me, You and I may not have always agreed, but I know you never went to bed. Deedee, wondering if you were loved. She said if you do anything for your kids, that’s the one thing you can do. You’re not always going to agree, but that kid has to know that they went to bed, Love. And she gave me that. She gave all of us that.