I just got back from my trip to Corpus. I don't really look forward to visiting my dad's relatives there, because they are of a different socio-economic status. Well, it's a little more complicated than that...

My dad grew up poor. He tells us stories sometimes of how he had to cook for his younger brothers and how they had to live off food stamps, basically. This is all very well in a story, but it is totally alien to me and my siblings, who have grown up in relative luxury. In any case, dad was the only one of his family to significantly break that cycle of poverty. For this reason, perhaps, it is very strange to visit them. I would say more, but I have no more coherent thoughts to speak of.