>>906897Yeah my sister was the one who kept in touch with him the most and would always defend him even with his 6 month booze binges and then coming back for 3 months acting like everything was fine and disappearing again. I used to be close to him but probably by the time I was 18 or 19 I totally gave up.
Couple fucked up things happened at the end though. He tried to call me a bunch for the first time in years like 2-3 months before he died and I ignored all the phone calls. And then I went up to Chicago last yearbplanning to stay like 10 days and go to his funeral but went back to FL after like 4 days and didn't even go. And my little brother had no interest in going. It was all fucked up though because he was around when I was younger and then the drinking started getting bad when I was maybe 9 or 10 and they divorced and he left when I was 12. He stayed in the area but even when he was sober for periods of time he didn't make a whole lot of an effort to see his kids.
And the booze was what killed him too. He went back out drinking again after being sober a few months and fell down the stairs at his apartment in the middle of the night and they found his ass braindead the next morning. Kept him alive for a couple days and then pulled the plug.
>talk about fishin'I do regret not hanging on to more of his old rods and reels. I have a few of his lures but there were some Abu spinning reels and St. Coix rods that I wouldn't mind having. Not to use but just to have.
