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.
too much tomorrow" said Dania. We covered
alive and
I was thinking about it I suddenly had an idea. I went into the house and got Mom's wallet. I remember she had pictures in it and I thought maybe she would have one of her
only pictures were of us and Dad. Then I noticed something
driver's license
you guys
been before I was born.
was issued before we were
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from the same town. I
- they must have gone to high school together! How
weird! There is
then I saw it, a picture with the edges torn and frayed attached to the back of another picture. What
looks like a picture of Mom and
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
"What?"
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