COINCIDENCE

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*The Cliche Introductory Page*

Looking at the list up there, this seems like a movie of some sort but in actual sense, like in an alternate reality, this is truly my life story.

And like every life story, there is the usual ups and downs, the roughs and tumbles, mid-life crisis, family drama to spice up, breakdowns and on the up side, breakthroughs too.

I can't say that my family is messed up but I can honestly that we are far from perfect. We have our misunderstandings and arguments over time, failed promises, over expectations (which were never really met, come on ---- we are just humans).

There is the lack of care, the cold stare of jealousy and maybe a truck load of love, from one side of the family and the other side, it was carefully hidden for a long while, but with time, I see love bursting through the gaping holes. After alot of trials and errors, I see the flower of love blooming, its a slow but steady process though.

So, I know my manners are lacking in some areas and I have gotten rusty bit here goes nothing........

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Its Introduction Time *drums roll*

Hi! My name is Arno, I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world, her name is Jackie (she is a Jamaican and a rockstar -------- you get it, cause she rocks my world *winks*🤗).

Together we have the most adorable baby girls (my girls will scrowl at this, they feel they are "big girls" now🤓),  Matilda and Margie May.

My dad is the weirdest individual and extremely out of this world. He was in prison for most of my life and is a little unstable, the few times I have been opportuned to speak with him, he always asks me to call him " plain Old Dajon" (I know right🙄, he is as weird as they come).

My mum -Olivia is the queen of sass and passe... Born and breeding by a middle class dutch family back in the small town of Swellendam, S.A our home country. She got entangled with the wrong crowd, ended up with my dad, rectified the issue/"the mess she got herself into" when dad went to prison.

She moved to the U.SofA, got her act together, got married to one of the richest men, in the person of my step-dad -- Brendon (who calls himself "Brendad" as in Brendon the dad👨‍👩‍👧‍👦). He is a somewhat selfless person, has this inner joy that can't be tempered with and a pace-maker attitude.

With mum stepping up the social ladder, alot of things changed. She became the most prim and proper lady, almost always demanding and never asks. She has high, skyscrapping expectations of everyone and will eat you up alive, if you fall below per😓.

My lovely sister-- Talia (lovely here is under great scrutiny🙄), felt left out most of her life, the child who had witnessed and could fully comprehend the horrors we had lived through back in S.A. So needy of love and desperate for attention. Feeling displaced, she stuck to mum like a leech and ended up growing with a cold heart. She is always calculating, strategising and like mum has her nose stuck in the air literarily.

Shan, her husband is much better, (thank heavens🙁),  he is more like "Brendad", cool, kind and calm.

And sometimes I begin to wonder, why do cold women end-up with nice men?

Well, I guess this is how nature works. There ought to be a balance in the world, after all!

Mrs Avril can not be left out because she is like a real mother figure to me and also my little girls. She has lived with us almost since Matilda was born and as they say it has been a jolly experience.

Author's Note
Not to worry, this is just the beginning, an introduction to Arno's world.

There is more.....

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