Bats

Bats in the house
When I was 12 years old my mother told me that my father whom I have never met send a ticket for me to come and visit him in America. I could tell she was a little apprehensive about me leaving but I was really excited to be able to visit America. In fact I was thinking that my mom was glad to get rid of me for the entire summer but maybe she wasn't entirely. So when the day came to leave I was booked on a flight as an unaccompanied minor. I remember sitting in this room on these really little chair I was thinking that I was probably too old to be an unaccompanied minor because of the chairs in the waiting area with the other kids for waiting was so small however I was glad that somebody told me where to go expert. I mean I would've never known wait to get on the plane but the most but the scariest part was that I had no idea with my father look like. When we landed in Chicago I was escorted out by an escort to meet my father and I remember coming out and this woman with blond hair waving at me. When I left to come to America and meet my father at picture at meeting my father and I kind of didn't think that he would be Marriott and having other children. For some reason that never even entered my mind. So turns out the woman who was waving at me was his wife and her name was in a NN. The whole situation was kind of awkward. I'm in here I'm 12 years old and that meeting these adults for the first time and one of them is my father it's all kind of surreal. When we left the airport I didn't realize that we had another 56 Hour Dr. in front of us and I became pretty tired in the car once I got in because it was late and I was exhausted and for seven somehow I understood that they told me we had to drive to St. Louis and that I had some no wait
So I got clarification about me arriving in America. I guess Aaron was not his wife anymore. She was they were in the middle of a divorce but as a 12-year-old I really didn't care or understand any of that anyway. So yes we did go directly to Pearl. I remember being in Pearl and in the house and waking up in the middle of the night and just looking out the window. The house across from my dads house was really nice White House and I thought maybe that's why my grandmother lived. My grandmother was the only one who kept in touch with me over all the videos and she would send me packages mostly with the polyester nightgowns that had some kind of picture on it, A stuffed toy usually something that you could wind up and it would make noise, and bubblegum and walnuts. I remember she always said walnuts and the walnuts Kinda tasted like bubblegum because they were in the package so long together they kind of took on that flavor. All those characters on the night allen's she sent I didn't know. I just lived a totally different life and we didn't have American TV north if we have Disney movies so I didn't know what any of those characters were. I do have a picture of me wearing one of those nightgowns well in the hospital after having surgery to have my polyps in my nose removed. So anyway I thought that was her house because it looked beautiful but I also thought no maybe that's that harass her house it just doesn't look like a house anyone really lives in. I couldn't read the sign from the vet but many years later when I went when I went back to visit Cara I with the sign and it said funeral home. Coincidentally I came there to see my grandmother off because she had died and she was in that funeral home. Living at my father's face, it's really difficult for me to call her the home, because it was a garage downstairs with kind of a shop/living area and the bathroom where you had to take a piece of plywood and put it in front of the door. And that upstairs you went up on these raggedy stairs and I don't remember them having even a place to hold onto upstairs was to foams two rooms and the windows were kind of lacking class meaning there was no class at all of the windows and there was some kind of cooking area like a kitchen and off of that room was a bathroom with the bathtub. There was no hot water so if and what it had water I have to boil it. Every now and then I really wanted a bath so I would boil water take their self put it all in the bathtub and get in. Jennifer would get it with me and the water after was so dirty it's just amazing that I didn't itchy all the time. My father had a really big car where Mandy you could sit in it was in the fancy car it's at something L it had three leathers and void of them was an L but it wasn't a fancy car for American standards but for me it was a huge car.

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