Reacquaintance

Blood relatives started to trickle into my house. The noise built. But I could still hear my Mom. This meant not all of the Tan family were present. Thank God for that.

Food was served and soon everyone was in clusters. I hopped from cluster to cluster, exchanging 3 years of news in 5 minutes.

Oh, and in the three years I was gone, my cousin Gary made an Uncle out of me. Twice. Their names are Natasha and Nathalie.

Hmmmm! Uncle Jeremy. Psychologically, that adds ten years to your age.

I weathered the “Do you have a girlfriend?”, the “How much longer are you going to be there?”, and the “What happened to your hair?” questions. And then they left me alone.

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