A
Right.
B
And, and, uh, it was an enormous task to bring all of those people together with just one or two people helping. And, uh, we had to provide sleeping arrangements for all of them and I told him,
A
Have you, have you done this repetitively, or just once?
B
We did it that year, and then the following summer, we did not have all of the family there. We sent invitations. We said, `` Please let us know if you're coming. '' It was when, uh, his mother, his step father had died the year before,
A
Oh.
B
and it, his mother was alone, and so they came to support her, and then one by one, his broth-, you know, his sisters, he began to lose family members,