When you try to date back your ancestry what do you do? You make a family tree. Each person is a leaf, put them together and you have a family branch. It gets better, there is more than one branch on a tree, there are about sixty. And they all come from the same thing, the roots. “What are your roots?” she asked. It’s important to know who you ought to be. We are one colossal tree.  We are forever free. Fly like a butterfly or bee.  Andrew will always be my older protective and sensitive brother. Chris, I want to leap over the success that you are. The purest man is Johnny, he only has the one glass of champagne every new year.  My father and I are both sappy and love hoarding and such. Mother, I have your great strength and will. Friends are for a reason a season or a lifetime,  the lifetime ones just become another branch.