"My sister is a showoff. Everything thing she did during high school and college was to prove that she was wealthy. Well, we were well off but not rich. I bought out her share of the family ranch. She has signed off at the lawyers.<br/>Yes, we drank a glass at special occasions but not every day or every week or every month even. Alcohol means trouble as far as I am concerned.<br/>These bottles of alcohol was most likely prized possessions in Meredith's eyes and not meant to be drank.<br/><br/>Meredith had been in trouble once and it was with drugs. She was at college and was nearly done with her degree in culinary academy when our parents died in a car crash by a drunk driver. A friend gave her some pills to help her sleep and to give her energy to get through college. She got hooked on them. I made her go to rehab.<br/><br/>She did well enough to get out of rehab and back to the ranch. This is where she thought that everything should be new looking and up to date and all that rot. She met Lone Star, Sean's father. They married and had Sean. Meredith had the 'baby blues' and didn't get over them.<br/><br/>One day she met up with some old friends and ended up in rehab again but this  time it was a court order. She hit a car that killed several older ladies of society. While in rehab, she decided to be someone with a lot of wealth which she did not have. Lone Star and Meredith parted when Sean was barely two. She just took the old truck and what she could and left.<br/><br/>No one saw hide or hair of her for several years then she disappeared again. When she was in trouble after that, it was robbing a house. She went to prison for 3 month and Sean lived with me. I made an agreement with her and we both kept our end of the agreement until she met Mitch. The rest was brought out in court.<br/><br/>I did what I could but I had a family as well. I lost my wife and pregnant daughter in a car crash. I never did find her again until The Rodeo Boys became a hit............" Jesse spoke sadly.