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Crowne Plaza Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana<\/p>\n
Family reunions.\u00a0 First cousins, the forward edge of the baby boom, we hold each other in special regard.\u00a0 We know the trajectory of each other’s lives.\u00a0 Kenya lost her husband Ron three years ago, but now sees the world again.\u00a0 Kathy, with her roots in the military, could not come today because she had a memorial for Hoosiers who’ve died in Iraq.\u00a0 She’s had bariatric surgery as has Kate.<\/p>\n
Diane, who picked us up, stood up for me at our wedding.\u00a0 She’s lived in the Bay area since 1974.\u00a0 A breakup with her long time partner, Jeff, still wounds her.\u00a0 Richard, her brother, retired from Eli Lilly five years ago.\u00a0 He has long hair, a sulky tattoo on his right upper arm and wore a Las Vegas t-shirt today.\u00a0 Las Vegas, where we learn to forget.\u00a0 He races harness horses.<\/p>\n
There was little Jacob, wandering from picnic table bench to grass to his mom to Grandma Tanya.\u00a0 When he tipped over forward, he found the grass as interesting as whatever he left behind in the upright world.<\/p>\n
These are the people who know me from the long ago, those years before we learned to read, while we learned to drive and who stood with us as our parents died.<\/p>\n
I love them; they love me.\u00a0 And that is all I know on earth and all I need to know.<\/p>\n
A train rumbles along the track outside and sounds like muffled thunder in our room.\u00a0 We have been back from the reunion for a few hours.\u00a0 We leave Indy tomorrow morning at 5:30 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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