A Long-Lost Letter from My First Love Led Me to Reconnect After Decades Apart 1.2K 33 Share SHARE Stories Funny Joke: It was gonna hurt like heck at the dentist – but the man got a good deal Stories My Husband Kicked My Son Out While I Was Away on a Business Trip — So I Taught Him a Lesson He’ll Never Forget Stories PART 2 The name was Gil Mercer. Uncle Gil.He wasn’t really my uncle. He was my dad’s best friend from the feed store. He’d been at every birthday, every Easter, every Christmas Eve of my life. 3 Stories I spent 6 hours cooking Thanksgiving dinner. At 7 pm, my son arrived with 6 guests from my daughter-in-law’s family. They sat down like they owned my home. My DIL said, “Would you mind eating in the kitchen, Dad?” I just smiled and walked into the kitchen… what I did next had everyone screaming. 2 1