My brother and I have two half sisters. They left to live with their father when we were small. My brother says I have the wrong reasons, so I cannot tell you why.
I was on the beach. I was only six, I think. My sisters' father was visiting. I said, "my favorite person is Mimi." Mimi is my oldest sister. I think that very night while my parents were out, my sister's father was in our house.
He said, "did you know your favorite person is leaving tomorrow?" He did not say it diplomatically or lovingly. He was not my father. Why would he even care? My mother left him and moved on to my father, but I was just a child, a product of that, but not guilty in terms of how it came about or how it occurred.
Soon, my other sister, Betsy left too. I cannot even remember that. She followed her whole sister, Mimi, and there was a reason, but the reason I will never know. My brother and I felt loss from losing our sisters, never knowing why, only knowing we were sad and the table of six became a table of four, my parents, my brother and me. Like everything else, my brother sees more into it, but all I know is what I recall. I know not the reasons, but I adjusted to the family being devoid of my half sisters, and maybe it hurt my brother more than me, but we became a family divided, and now today many families endure such hardship.
Mimi is the center. Between my father, her stepfather and me.
ReplyDeleteI have no family here in North Carolina, my folks and siblings are gone and my son lives in Oregon. I find that we always can use the support of our siblings or cousins. I enjoyed reading this, even though I don't know these people.
ReplyDeleteThank you. That is true, very true. My brother and I speak a lot on the phone, and Mimi is a good sister still. We live near each other. Thanks for your comment.
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