minds #love A Different Kind of Love UNCLE SID Today, I thought I would write about a different kind of love than I usually write about. Typically, I write about my husband or my dogs or how to find love by dating. Today, I thought I'd share about one of the other great loves of my life, my Uncle Sid. Uncle Sid died this morning of pancreatic cancer. Somehow, I thought it would be easier to lose someone who was 90-years-old, but it's not, not when we're talking about a man who was still as vital and alive as Uncle Sid. Until he was diagnosed with cancer 4 ½ weeks ago, he was still working as a corporate lawyer, driving himself to the office everyday. He was engaged in the world, keeping abreast of politics and the news, reading 3 newspapers everyday. Even at age 90, there was no one smarter than Sid when it came to investing in the stock market and buying and selling properties. And he was still socializing with family and friends. Whenever we went to dinner with him and my Aunt, Ruth, he would run into at least one tableful of people he knew. Next to my husband, Uncle Sid was the most important man in my life. He was like a father to me. When I was 15, my mother died of breast cancer. My brother and I went to live with our grandmother, Mimi, until she died six years later. On her deathbed, Mimi asked her younger brother, Sid, to please take care of my brother and me.