Commentary on Jenny Lewis.  I think the article in the NY Times is important to keep as part of this blog/book.  I want my children to know their relations and I want Jenny and Leslie Lewis if every they should inquire to know that they have family and are loved.

It has always been a sad mystery about Dorothy Simons. Malky was one of 4 sisters; Rita, Dorothy, Irene and little Muriel.  I am actually not sure on the order except for Rita and Muriel.  Dorothy was estranged and it is quite the mystery.  Dorothy had 2 children Bobby who was killed in a car accident and Linda who had 2 children: Jenny Lewis and Leslie Lewis.  I have never met them and I don't know why.  I Facebooked Jenny after learning about her up-coming SLC concert.  She didn't reply and I decided not worth the late work-night effort to maybe not have her respond to a request to meet her at the show.   The generation of cousins that would like to see each other more and get to know those other cousins are: Lisa, Stephanie and David(?) Malcy,  Stacy Friedman Brown,  Josh and Avi Rosenfeld, Lauren and Allyson Knowles, Myself and Allon Cohne, Jason, Sarah, and Leah Fessinger and Ryan and Michael Fessinger.  That is a lot of cousins and a lot of family that would love to get to know Jenny and her sister.
Stacy and I discussed Jenny's recent tour and our mutual sadness that Jenny feels abandoned by family and that we only seek her out as she is famous. It's actually the only we are able to contact her.  The article expresses she feels her entire life people/family have only connected with her for her fame.  It is so sad that she has NO idea the sense of family and love the Rita, Irene and Muriel instilled in all of the grandchildren.
My mom has some of the history of Bobby's death and I recall vividly being in the basement of Yale Ave. home listening to my parents discuss Leslie and Jenny moving to SLC to be in foster care with family as their mother was unable to care for them and entering rehab.  It was shocking then and I am sure impossible to arrange California to Utah foster family situation.  I wish those girls had known the depth of love and family commitment that we knew.