"His first wife had died in childbirth with my father's elder brother. So he was left with a newborn and no way to care for him. And well, this girl had just come to live with her aunt, a young widow from the war with a small child still nursing. So she offered to help with my uncle, and they decided at the end of the first week of knowing each other to just get married. And so they did. He often told me how they fell in love after the wedding. My father was born the next year." 