After my eldest son’s wife passed away he was given options on how to continue. An aunt from his mother’s side had offered for him to come live with them on the farm in Freedom, Wyoming. His in-laws offered to allow him to continue living with them. Of course Roland offered for him to move to Oregon. I don’t know what it was that kept him in Utah. I personally thought Freedom would have been the best choice. Ali would have gotten to know cousins on the Warner side of the family. Biff told me that she loved cows (that was when she was two – I have no idea what her interests are at present - wolves?) and she would have had the opportunity to interact with them and learn the ways of dairy farming.
Eventually Biff met Claire and thus
stayed in Utah for her. They finally got
married. She had fallen in love with
both Biff and Ali. Ali doesn’t remember
Jeanie as she was only two years old when her mother passed. Clair is her mom – perhaps the
only mom that she will remember. Claire
didn’t want to move
to Oregon because she was licensed in whatever practice in Utah but does not
even work now from what I understand.
She spends a huge amount of time doting on Ali – lately at the
hospital. Ali has been in and out since
December. I recall Jeanie being in and
out of the hospital quite often after we met her. Could Ali be following in her mom’s footsteps?
I wonder how different things might have
been if Biff had brought her to Oregon three years ago or if he had gone to
Wyoming. It sounds like he and his aunt
are of similar mind. Perhaps Ali would
have been diagnosed with COVID in Wyoming as well – though I
think the exposure would have been less risky there than the wall-to-wall
population of people in some counties in Utah.
I don’t know. We can never know how differently life would
have been if we had chosen another path.
Now it doesn’t seem as if
either Oregon or Wyoming are options as Salt Lake and surrounding areas have a
wide option of hospitals and clinics.
They may be medically advanced in Portland – but Biff and
Clair cannot afford anything in Portland – not that they’d want to
come. I think as long as Ali remains in
and out of the hospital, they really need to stay put and take advantage of
where they are.
