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.

said Dania. We covered her with a blanket

alive and very much part of her

Mom's wallet. I remember she had pictures in it and I thought maybe she would

entire wallet, but the only pictures were of us and Dad. Then I noticed something hidden under a picture.

license

you guys

been before I

before we were born.

story? Make sure

awaits, exclusively on our

town. I

have gone to high school together! How big

There is

a picture with the edges torn and frayed

Mom and Dad as teenagers!" Dania

this taken?" We didn't what to think. It appeared that they had lied

"What?"

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