After the wedding I wandered around a bit and then my sister gave me a ride back to the hotel. My father and Evelyn were already in bed, but I wasn't ready for that kind of thing. I hung out with my brother and Brandy for a while. We talked about this and that. In the background Larry King interviewed contestants from Dancing With The Stars while the news of the world scrolled across the bottom of the screen, one pithy factoid at a time.

  

I'm just shocked somebody would look at that woman. Simply shocked.

  

I remember telling him that it had done something to me to watch my little sister's daughter walk down the aisle. I remember having a cat allergy attack at that apartment they'd had when she was a baby. Years before that I remember sitting in the back seat while Tonia and Bryant had an arguement about how to fix their car when it died late at night on some lonesome road when they were just dating and I was a rare visitor from California. There has been so much water under the bridge since then. Seeing Teresa get married was like a big "you missed your chance to do that" signal.

  

  

I told my brother I thought it was really cool that he was doing the family thing. He said he's glad that I'm getting to know his kids at these family reunion trips.

  



I foget if it was Aiden and/or Liam that threatened to wake up, but we turned it down again. We were already talking in hushed voices. Sometimes it was difficult for me to hear what was being said.

  

Brandy spent some time farming in farmville. I didn't pay much attention, but it was hard to ignore whole fields being harvested with just a few clicks of the mouse pad on my brother's laptop. After she was done I browsed facebook for a bit.

  

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