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 her with

and that he is still alive and very much part of her life" said

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

the entire wallet, but the only pictures

license

were you guys in California?" I

before I was born. Check

it was issued before we were born. I

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same town. I wonder if they

they are the same age - they must have gone to

is definitely something

saw it, a picture with the edges torn and frayed attached to the back of another picture.

like a picture of Mom and Dad as teenagers!" Dania came over

It

"What?"

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