Seven Siblings

 Jeannette Marie Piette turns 60 on August 19, 2021. Of course, years are just numbers, and if you would meet Ree, as the siblings and niblings calls her, or Lola, as her descendants call her (if they don’t call her Mom) or Jeannette, as her ever grateful clients call her, or Ma’am, as the doctors in her office call her, you would never guess her age. Not because she looks good (which she does) but because of her ever-youthful attitude towards life, the universe, and everything. But I think I need to go back a little bit to help everyone understand the whole picture of Jeannette. I remember her being born. We had to spend the night over at a friend’s house (yes, all five of her siblings!) and sleeping in a bed with at least one, maybe even two or three others. I would have been barely four years old at the time, so this must be one of my earliest memories. And my dear sister has been at the front of my mind ever since. Ree at about two months, held by Dan She was certainly the darl...