C13 originals. My mother's brother reached out to my father saying,

you know, we would love to have Selina come out and visit us,

you know, come play with her cousins.

My dad said, sure.

They were in Riverside at the time and my father drove me out there and then left to me and said I would be picked up in a couple of days.

Later that night there was a knock at the door and my uncle went to go answer it and when he opened the door there were these two strange women standing on the

doorstep and they were both dressed very similar to each other they were wearing

gene jackets and poop earrings, but they had bald heads.

My immediate reaction was that they were dangerous. maybe they were there to rob us. I thought my

uncle was going to shut the door in their faces and lock the door and call the

police and instead he invited these two very odd-looking

women into the house. And I remember just kind of like standing in the hall, you know peeping out, watching my uncle and aunt sitting and talking with these women and I was thinking, who are these people?

But as I was watching who are these people?

But as I was watching the women, one of them began to look familiar to me.

And I'm looking at her face and it suddenly occurs to me that that could be my mom.

Is that my mom? And so I came out and interjected myself into the conversation and I said,

excuse me, are you my mom and then she turned to me and she said yes yes I'm your

mom she gave me a hug and she said I've come here to take you with me and you're going to come live with me and send it on.

It was February of 1977 and I was six years old.

She sounded very excited and for me it was confusing because I literally had not seen her for like two and a half years.

All I knew is that, you know, my mom had gone to this place called Sinanan, but I didn't know what to make of that. But at that point

when I hadn't seen her in all this time that had gone by I was thinking to myself if it is my mom why is her head shaved?

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