anamnesiac

i am going to spend the day tomorrow with my first love’s brothers wife.

haven’t been in touch with her or her husband (my first love’s brother) for a few years now, so i got the bay family update, on all 11 members. they are, with the exception of one, mormons.

natalie lives at home. pamela’s husband went to law school. curtis (the first love) and wife had another boy. and then there were four.

i had such an intense relationship with natalie. now she, like her brother, has pretty much cut me off. i think she would like her life to look a certain way before she lets me see it.

mitchell left the church, the only one who did. i am still in touch with him.

my thoughts and memories regarding the bay family could be a blog unto itself so i will refrain for now. enough to say that they were a formative part of who i am now. (like, along with other aspects of my personality and life choices, the fact that i am working for an organization that promotes a way of being religious that does not require believing that your way is the only way). and, as i have said before, curtis, or rather my memory of him, is part of my DNA.