aww... so sweet !!! I love his answer to the question of how are doing without?
We are... (dud lady...lol)
I have an older brother like that.. talks with an accent you can cut with a knife and very slow speech.
BUT.. he is the smartest man I know and very well educated (even my dh) !! Just because we (well... I have been out of the South too many years

to sound too southern, just when I am really homesick or drunk

) sound like hicks doesn't mean we are !!