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from where my new parents lived, but I had never
traveled this far north. Other than some school
field trips, I hadn't been to many places at all. Just
leaving the orphanage and going twenty miles by
car was an adventure.
It was late summer, and the cooler autumn
winds had already begun to descend from the
north. Leaves were turning rust and orange, and
when I could see far into the distance and look
over the heavily wooded mountains, I thought the
ripple of colors was breathtakingly beautifuL This
was a bright, sunny day, too. The sky was a deep,
rich blue, and the clouds that flowed across it in a
stream of wind stretched themselves until they
became as thin as gauze. Way off to the south, an
airplane turned into a silver dot and then disap
peared into the douds╗
I was happy and full of hope. I would have a
home, a place to calfcmy own, and someone else to
care about besides myself, as well as, I hoped,
someone to care about me. How simple that was
and bow taken for granted by most people, but
how wonderful and new and precious it was for
orphans like myself.
"Kari is the oldest of three brothers and the
only one married. His middle brother, Stuart, is a
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salesman for an air-conditioner manufacturer i
Albany, and his younger brother, Gary, has gradt
ated from a culinary institute in Poughkeepsi<
where Karl's father lives. Gary was hired to coo
on a cruise ship, so we don't hear from him or se
him much at all.
"Karl and his brothers are not far apart in ag<
but they're not all that close. No one is in Kari'
family, right, Karl?"
Karl nearly turned to look at her. His hea
started to move and then stopped when an autc
mobile about fifty yards in front of us emerge'
from a driveway and he had to slow down.
"If they didn't speak to each other on the phon
occasionally, they wouldn't know who still existe
in the family and who didn't. Karl's father is sti
alive, but his mother passed away, what, twoyeax
ago,Kari?"
"A year and eleven months tomorrow," Kai
said mechanically.
"A year and eleven months,"she repeated like
translator.
So I have two uncles and a grandfather o