Memory Lane

I finally broke down and called my sister internationally - I used a calling card, so no one is paying my phone bill via taxes to the goverment! She has not been online in about three months! It is a good thing I called her, though, but I wish I had gotten ahold of her last week... I found out our birth mom's husband died last week and the military funeral was Monday. If I had known, I would have pulled leave and gone out there... it is only about a 5-6 hour drive. I have never seen my birth mom since I was seven, and I really want to see her. I can remember some stuff, like her taking me to a bar after her husband - who I thought was my birth father until I was 11 and is my adoptive father's son (he disowned his son) - but I want to see what she has made of herself. After she lost me and got her divorce from the jerk, she found a sailor that she married and apparently had a good life with. He retired from the Navy and they moved to Ohio. She is going to college and making something with her life. She is a lot different from what I remember from being seven years old, and that is just online and via the phone. I guess I will be making a trip here in the next month or two.