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“Sure,” he says, laughing. “I’m Michael, this is Chris,” he says, indicating the slightly smaller version of himself next to him, “and

our sister Amy.”

“Oh,” I say, raising my brows. “Wow, it’s really nice to meet you.”

“Not quite cousins,” Amy says, leaning in familiarly to talk to me.

Her words are just a little bit slurred – not sloppy, but I can tell

she’s had a couple of drinks. “We’re second cousins! Your dad

is our mom’s cousin, which means,” she screws up her face in

thought, thinking, “we have great–grandparents in common.”

“Wow,” I say, taking a sip from my glass. “Um, my family- I mean,

the family I was adopted into – we didn’t pay a lot of attention to

that sort of thing. So to find out I have great–grandparents and

second cousins all in one day…” I raise my eyebrows in emphasis and they laugh, nodding.

“Yeah,” Michael says. “It must be a lot, to go from nothing into a big Italian family like this.”

“We remember you, though!” Amy says with a big smile. “Because you were our little redheaded Baby Fay-”

I blink, suddenly, at the way she says that. Baby Fay – only one other person calls me that-

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at family parties,” she continuos, “like I remember one summer, our

then, nudging her with his

to continue, then, trying to move the conversation on. “Yeah, anyway, I remember you when

I say, putting out a hand to stop her. “Fiona? Is that –”

side. “Fay?” He asks, looking. sternly at my new cousins. “Did you have some trouble getting

a little star–struck. “Kent,”

on,” he says, ignoring them and taking me by the arm. I look back at them and grimace a little, shrugging as I let him pull me away. They all give me a little wave. As I walk away I see Michael say

when

the table. “And if

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head. “We can’t take risks

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if I’m going to come to these things to meet my family, you have to let me,

just glares at me and turns away

notice – it’s definitely a smaller crowd than it was before. Even when I glance at our table, I notice that my

for them. “A problem with the baby,” he says,

closely at the people left in the room now, who have, indeed, grown a little quiet. There are very few children left, mostly men in suits standing quietly at pairs.

at us.

reaches out a hand then and just as he

BAM –

yell of surprise god damnit, it sounds like a firework has gone off in the

room-

BAM BAM BAM

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