Patrick Kanouse
I'm not sure I would have had an answer a few years ago, but now I have one. At least the beginnings of one. A number of years ago, a person contacted me and asked if she could get a signed copy of a little chapbook of poems I had made. I did not get many such requests, but I did not find it "odd" either. I was pretty stoked. So she gave me her address, I signed a copy, and sent it on its way.
She revealed to me then, that she was my half-sister. Way back in the day, before I was old enough to remember, my mom and birth father divorced. I stayed with my mom, who eventually remarried and her second husband adopted me. (And he has been my dad. I asked him to be my best man at my wedding.) My birth father had not kept in contact, though he apparently did follow me as best he could in those pre-Internet days.
Additionally, it turned out that an uncle, a few years older than me, lived quite close by.
Perhaps the beginnings of a mystery plot? With the necessary turns and twists, of course. :)
She revealed to me then, that she was my half-sister. Way back in the day, before I was old enough to remember, my mom and birth father divorced. I stayed with my mom, who eventually remarried and her second husband adopted me. (And he has been my dad. I asked him to be my best man at my wedding.) My birth father had not kept in contact, though he apparently did follow me as best he could in those pre-Internet days.
Additionally, it turned out that an uncle, a few years older than me, lived quite close by.
Perhaps the beginnings of a mystery plot? With the necessary turns and twists, of course. :)
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