I do regret the distance from what was the immediate family, but the estrangement seems to be mutual, as to every relationship. The atomic family, exploded. They were very good people, but the confidential government work had a very deracinating and destabilizing effect on their minds, and things just fell apart from there. Quite spectacularly. There are a few things touching both family confidences and government confidences that can't be discussed, but I do need to slip into this evolving record of the time that we're completely estranged, and there's no implicit agency, or basis of knowledge to be had vis-a-vis the others in the tribe.
And now, I will allow such things to scroll off the bottom of the page.