Introduction, Mom and Dad
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All participants in the events described herein were at least 18 years of age at the time of the events described. Please don't ask how old we are now. It just isn't polite.
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No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man, God is faithful and will not let you be tempted before your ability. -First Corinthians 10.13
And you shall know the truth. And the truth shall set you free. -John 8.32
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Mom never told me that she was a Masochist. I just kind of figured it out on my own, over time, from the clues. Years later when I asked her questions involving submission, pain, or masochism she would just smile, sometimes blush, and change the subject. We have an interesting relationship, Mom and I. Once I reached my teenaged years I do not believe that either of us has ever once lied to the other. ("The truth-") But we don't tell each other everything, ("but not the whole truth") and we respect each other's privacy.
Mom knows that Jamie and I are lovers. And that we have been since the night of "our" eighteenth birthday. (Mine is really a few days before her's, but since number eighteen, we have always celebrated them together.) Mom knows that my big brother George is the biological father of her grandchild by Jamie. And she knows that Punch is the biological father of her grandchild my moi. Mom knows that I idolize George. I once told her that if he were not my brother I would marry him. Mom knows me well enough not to have pointed out that he would have a choice in the matter. Lisa, I am your narrator in this little tale. Lisa is driven and she gets what she wants. Well, everything except that one thing I really, truly wanted. Mom thinks that I am gay because no boy, no man, could ever hope to live up to the idealized image that I hold of my big brother George.
Mom was never a prude about sex. I am guessing that this was because we were both girls. She never shared any intimate information with my three brothers. She told me that she did not have to worry about birth control because my father had a vasectomy. Well, that, and the fact that there were "ways to be intimate" which could not lead to "unforeseen difficulties". She taught me how human beings reproduce, and how to avoid doing so "until the time is right", while still satisfying "the natural urges we all have". Mom taught me that if someone really, truly loved me, that they (she actually said "he") would put my needs first, before their own. "Like the way that George did with (Jamie and I)." She could not have been more right about that. Not that she meant George as anything other than an example of the perfect platonic love that so often exists between siblings.
I have thought about just blurting out, "Mom, I found the PERFECT guy for me, and I know YOU WILL JUST LOVE HIM". But I couldn't hurt her in that way. The one thing I regret in life. The one thing I would have done anything for. That thing that I would have loved to have, but knew that I could never have. Would have been to have George's child growing inside of me. Mom taught me how to avoid "social diseases", and how to attract a better class of suitors.
Once in her seventies, she responded to a general question about my father's health with, "Well, he still knows how to ride a bicycle". This was something new, I had never seen my father on a bicycle.