All In The Family: 9
That night, we announced we were going to cook and Mom should relax on the porch with a drink. Now Mom wasn't a big booze drinker but she liked Caribbean sweet drinks. I had found a recipe for a pina colada and we had purchased the makings at the store. I made the drink with a lot of rum - double what the recipe ordered. Mom had one and than another remarking how great they tasted after a long day in the sun. "It brings back such wonderful memories" she said, already feeling the effects of the alcohol.
By the time we served dinner she was drunk as hell -no only from the drinks but from the two bottles of wine we drank. I should say she drank, because Dania and I barely had any on purpose.
We were sitting in the great room with Mom sprawled on the couch. She was still drinking her wine when we broached the topic again.
"We were talking about how great your and Dad's story is and how you were so sensitive to how we were together. How come?"
Through her drunken haze she answered
"I have a brother that I love so much that I would do anything for him. And I did!" That was the first that either of us knew she had a brother.
"Where is he now? Who is he? How come we have never met him?"
"Oh, you know him all right" she said and passed out on the couch. We just stared at each other in total amazement.
"I guess we overdid it a little" I said.
tomorrow" said Dania. We covered her with a blanket and went outside to
still alive and very much part of her
into the house and got Mom's wallet. I remember she had pictures in it and I thought maybe she would have one of
the entire wallet, but the only pictures were of
license with
guys
before I was born. Check the
issued before we
of this story? Make
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from the same town. I wonder if they knew each other
- they must have gone to high school together! How big a town could
There is definitely something
it, a picture with the edges torn and frayed attached to the back of another
a picture of Mom and Dad as teenagers!"
is. How come they are together? Where was this taken? When was this taken?" We didn't what to think. It appeared that they had lied to us about something so silly as knowing each other in
"What?"
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