“... but why does our family only ever side with the losers and never the winners?

What, you don’t like siding with the weaker folk?

Of course not. All we do is get hurt!

The wrinkles around his grandmother’s eyes had grown even deeper as she smiled widely and said, ‘It always looks like you’re losing at first, but in the end, the weak are destined to win. It’s just frustrating that it takes so long, is all.’

Then she added, ‘If you live long enough, you figure this all out. Everyone else knows it, too. They just don’t like to show it.”