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I'm not crying, you're crying. Shut up.
I have a lot of... I don't want to call it regret, but something adjacent to regret, about never having kids. I'm at the point in my life now where I realize it's never going to happen. The last part of your message helped with that, I think. My mom's only 64. I'm hoping that I'll be doing this for another 30 years or more. If I had to trade one for the other, I'd rather this than kids. Still, I think I'd have been a good dad.
I've always been close with my mom, like, crazy close. I don't know if I could do this for other people. As my dad gets older I'm realizing more and more than I don't know what I'll do if he ever requires this kind of care. We're not close, and he is... A hard person to be close with. I wish you the best of luck and patience and everything else with your uncle. You're a better person than I. A stronger person. I hope there's someone like you around when I get old.