Community.
In the SQL Server community, we are basically one big #sqlfamily. This is a story of how the family helped one individual and one of the main reasons I am involved, to begin with.
Meet Jerad.
In happenstance, both our children attend the same school. He happened to recognize me at a meeting at the school one evening. Well, he thought that I was the DBA with a Bat (my Twitter persona) and it turns out he was right. Of course, I didn’t have my bat at the time, so there is that.