Loners

My home is also decorated with more than a few pictures of the real Michael Collins; I even have an infamous(?) picture of the 5 members of his personal squad of Apostles. Took a bit of research to find their names, but eventually I did that too. My granddad and g-grand both had individual photos of some, but when as a child I asked who they were, they'd never say more than 'boys from the old country'. Dad told me after they died but not before. It was not something to be noised about during their time. When Dad passed, I loved to tease my sister about it because she had her nose so high up in the air; liked to imagine we were descended from ancient Irish royalty, and nearly convinced herself of it too.

Well, one common denominator among us all, I think, is that we're very interested in ourselves!