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Harvard alumni?

 My brother Dante tells me not to let my anger and bitterness consume me.. but I’m a teenager and if I don’t let my anger and bitterness consume me? What do I do with my time? It was my god given job at this point.  Still, my anger started when dad called, (no surprise there.) whereas Dante dismissed our father, I waited for his calls, amazingly, hanging on his every word, (especially given that he killed my biological mother. A person, no matter how much Dante and I try and dig up information on? Remains a mystery, except her face and when she’d sing “Hush little baby” in Spanish to me. My only memory of her. Instead I  had memories of dad, my mother’s murderer (family was complicated, I still never knew WHY he murdered her. Or who my biological father was. And I didn’t really care. My father took some joy in ignoring me or leaving me locked in a boarding school until Dante came and brought me home, I was fourteen at the time.. Lucky him.)   Now I was seventeen and ...

Family is… forever?

  To understand me.. I guess we have to go back to the beginning… It all started when I was a child, I was like most children, really. Or, at least children with happy families. My parents loved each other, it was obvious with the way my dad would dance my mom around the kitchen or how she’d smile and laugh even when my father’s jokes weren’t funny. And my mom looked like every mom from fifties, always wearing dresses or housecoats as some would, she’d have dinner on the table every night at five o’clock sharp, anyone who late would get a stern talking to but she’d still dote on you. My dad was handsome, a lawyer, made good money, came home and played with me, helped my mom in the kitchen, never smoked or drank much but the occasional glass of wine. It was perfect. It was all.. beautiful.. it made me long for those moments. Those moments of… fantasy. I didn’t remember my parents. I didn’t have memories of my father dancing my mother around the kitchen or her cooking pot roast for f...