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The one my father never met
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Her name was
Mary
.
My
grandfather
met her in
Europe
in the middle of the war.
I got her
eyebrows
, and her
wild hair
.
She and Grandpa were both
of Irish descent
.
She was born in
England
and she grew up
Catholic
.
He grew up in the
States
; he was
Protestant
.
The wedding photos are a blur
.
Prior to Grandpa's death, we had always believed that she was
the first one to leave
, and that
my father was raised by a well-meaning stranger
because his mother didn't love him.
When we cleaned out his hotel, we found otherwise; it was in the form of
letters she had written to his sister
. Beautiful penmanship and British spellings.
Frequent use of words like "
frantic
," "
panic
," "
another woman
." She wrote with a
clipped English lilt
. I always imagined her speaking so too.
She died in '74. Married again, we think. We got her
obit
at the library. Dad and I talk about looking up his
half-sister
for kicks, but we forget.
His stepmother's name was
Laura
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