or do any of the other things we’ve promised each other, we’re going to have to move him into government care.”
My father let out a deep sigh and whispered, “We’ve discussed this so many times, Trina.
In the end you always agree that keeping him at Greenhaven is the right thing to do.”
I wanted to say, Wait! What are you talking about? Who are you talking about?
But the conversation was flying so fast and furious that I couldn’t seem to break in,
and it wasn’t long before they were bickering so badly that it was almost like I wasn’t there.
Then in the back of my mind, it clicked. Everything clicked.
It was my dad’s brother they were talking about. My uncle. David.
To me Uncle David was only a name. Someone my parents had explained to me, but not someone I’d ever actually met.
And even though I knew my dad visited him, I never knew exactly when. He never talked about it.
Dad also thought we shouldn’t talk about Uncle David to others because David was retarded.
“People jump to conclusions,” he’d told me. “They assume that, by association,
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