cjd and brawling

When I was 7-8 years old, we brought my grandmother to our house to die of a disease no one had really heard of in the US -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or more commonly known as mad cow disease in animals.

My dad’s sisters had never gotten along well, but with their mother dying and their marriages going badly, they were at each other’s throats.

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