Mary, Why is your brother hostile? Did he have a falling-out with the family some years ago? I gather he is not from your father's "other" Californian family, but has the same father and mother as you ... I don't wish to pry if this is sensitive, just trying to work out the "story". Were you trying to contact him to help piece together your father's history? Pat, You may have misread the intentions of the person trying to unsubscribe. I doubt if he meant it as any sort of insult or ungraciousness, he just wasn't aware of the procedure and happened to reply to one of Pat's entries in his attempt to contact the list. I agree with everone else ... please keep contributing Pat! The list wouldn't be the same without you. Ruth >There was no reunion, and it looks like there may not be one. > >He was not at work when she went to the store. >And he came back from vacation that night. I had sent him an e-mail , >per mom's request. As he would have just hung up on her if she called, >and he did not get home until late from his vacation in Barazil. > >These e-mails are from before he went to work the next day. I guess he >was PO'd >that we caught him in a lie. And so had his boss, seeing his dead mother >standing there. > >Maybe after he calms down. > > >answer to 1st e-mail: > >Just who do you people think you are? If I wanted to have any contact >with >you (which I emphatically don't), I would. We have anti-stalking laws >here >in California and ANY attempt to come to my place of business will >result >in legal action. You have been given your FINAL notice. IN the words of >Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand, "the most precious right of every >American is to be left alone." > > >answer to my answer to the first, telling him we are your family: > >Hate has nothing to do with anything, _I_ have made a choice based on >things that are important to me and this YOU must respect. I have a >different family now and any further interference in my life will not be >tolerated and will not be of any satisfaction to any of you.