Teresa

My Brother is Thriving

by John Hamilton Farr on July 12, 2010 · 6 comments

in Personal, Teresa

For the last 10 years, I’ve struggled with every godforsaken evil thing that anyone could feel–consequently living poor to boot–and never got it together to come back to where I have an actual BROTHER and a SISTER…not to mention my own cultural heritage of Austin in the ’60s. You can’t buy this stuff, you have to live it. I do have a family, in other words: my siblings! DUH!!!

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My Sister is Dying

by John Hamilton Farr on July 11, 2010 · 6 comments

in Teresa

There, I said it. No need for euphemisms now, after visiting and talking to her. Dear, dear sister… Teresa is 61 years old (the photo is from just a few weeks ago). She was sick last summer but wrote it off to lactose intolerance. By the time she finally had a liver scan and blood [...]

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Siblings [Updated]

by John Hamilton Farr on June 23, 2010 · 0 comments

in Teresa

Three of the five of us, anyway, on the street in Austin, TX. My brother (left) posted this on a public Facebook page. The ladies are my sisters, and I have another brother out in Arizona. I hope they don’t mind my sharing this, because it’s pretty special. Aside from the fact that when my [...]

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That’s My Sister, All Right

by John Hamilton Farr on June 18, 2010 · 4 comments

in Teresa

“I‘ve got some bad news about Teresa…” my brother said. That isn’t what you want to hear when you pick up the phone, and he let me have it right away: my sister, just three years younger than I am, had been feeling poorly for a while and chalked it up to lactose intolerance. That [...]

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