Strangers

Every once in a while our biological father would drive up unannounced to see my sister and me and take us for a day.

He had already started a new family with his adopted children and new wife. Then a few years later he divorced them and married a third wife. Occasionally he would show up with wife number three waiting in the car.

Now every once in a while my sister calls on me now that her children have grown and left home. Every once in a while she wants a sister but it has been only once or twice in 47 years. She is a complete stranger just like my father was.