Sorry Bub, the World Ain't Fair. If you have a birthday on March 25th you can' t get to 200K followers. If ONLY your Mom wasn't so impatient! Now March 26th, March 26th could get you 350K easy! Even if you wrote only one story a month you'd hit 100K.

The only photo I have of my grandfather Paul, he leans on a chair with a black eye. My mother said he always said things in bars that made people hit him and he couldn't fight. He was always beat up. My uncle said he wrote letters to the editor that also got everyone's goat.

My Mom too, keeps me down. But it's my grandfather who really calls the shots in my writing.

I have a feeling you have such ancestors. My grandfather was an alcoholic. I've improved on that! Most of the people I read probably have similar struggles.