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My estranged sister contacted me:

she's seperated from her now estranged boyfriend.
She has 3 little girls: Maddy, age 5; Hailey, age 2,
and Kristen, age 6 mos.

She's living with her (my?) parents--
which makes my contact with her incredibly awkward.

She's been in this situation before, obviously.
The girls each have different fathers;
my sister is only 26. I tell this to no one.

Last week, I taught on domestic, now termed "partner,"
abuse.

***

Perhaps I'll write a novel about two women
who meet in grad school.
One woman comes from a prestigious family in the mid-west;
the other, from not such.
Mid-way through the novel, the doctor's daughter
discloses that she is, in fact, adopted.
The other woman never discloses the origins
of her own family history (althought the gentle
reader will be able to piece it all together).

Ironically, such a plot sounds so contrived.