Chapter 111

  Brandy

  “Dad, tell me about Aunt Alexa. You hardly mention her.”

  He pushed his empty plate away and sipped his beer. “After she graduated high school she went to university on a scholarship. That's where she met Steven. He was from a rich family in Tampa, and she fell head over heels in love with him. She never brought him home, and I think it was because she was ashamed of how we lived. We weren’t poor, but it wasn’t good enough for her I guess. After she and Steven graduated, they got married and moved into a large house and started a family.”

  “How much older is she?”

  Dad thought for a while and then said. “She's forty-seven now.”

  “Do I have stepcousins?”

  “Yeah, you do. A girl and a boy.” He drank his beer and then continued. “Let’s see, Dawn should be around twenty-five and Mike eighteen. Alexa got pregnant quite early I suppose.”

  “Why didn’t you keep in contact?”