[or-roots] Any suggestions

[Sue Steward]

It is sad when we realize that we don't know as much about our friends 
and acquaintances as we thought we did.  We think/hope that we have an 
open trusting relationship but that's not always the case.  Too bad that 
he couldn't have shared his emotions with you and possibly the pain of 
it all would have been less.

Sue

On 4/30/2011 4:25 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> Since this looks a lot like something I posted on Facebook this 
> morning I thought I should post yet another follow up on what the 
> results of my search were. It turns out Tom had turned his back on his 
> family. I won't go into details, but it is a very sad story.
>
> Ironically it never occurred to me in all the years I collaborated 
> with him on researching my great grandfather's genealogy to ask him 
> about his family. He sort of seemed to consider himself part of ours 
> and we have always been a family that was perfectly willing to adopt 
> people that way, no questions asked.
>
> I had a nice long chat a while back with a good friend of his who was 
> a but hurt that Tom cut off contact with him too.  He always thought 
> Tom would get in touch some day.
>
> And if I already posted all this, I refer you to my comment on face 
> book this morning.
>
> Les
>
>

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