Hoosier Taboo? – Chapter 6

Over the next several years, it has been busy for me and my family. Between taking care of my kids and taking college classes, it was all worth it. About a few months after both my mom and my aunt gave birth, they decide to have their tubes tied. My mom was DEFINITLY done with kids after the last pregnancy that was risky. In December of 1997, I finished my major in college with a degree in business.

As for my brother and sister, Darren married Bethany in April of 1998. They had a baby girl amed Gillian the following year in 1999. Dana hasn’t married yet, but has had a couple of relationships that went nowhere. But she’ll keep trying.

To this day, neither Deanna, Jacob, or Carolyn has any idea that I’m their father. To them, I’m Carolyn’s big brother and Jacob & Deanna’s cousin. No one else outside the family knew either, even to this day. All three of them have now grownup and moved on. In 2009, Deanna graduated from high school and is still in college pursuing a double-major. Both Carolyn and Jacob graduated the following year in 2010. Jacob enlisted in the Armed Forces and is now stationed in Thailand. Carolyn is still pursuing a medical degree. She wants to be an orthipedic surgeon.

But the one thing that hasn’t changed over the years is the fact that me, my mom and my aunt would have an occasional taboo as long as nobody ever found out. Sadly, Dana never married. About a year after Deanna graduated from high school, Dana was diagnosed with advanced-stage colon cancer. She died about a year after. She is buried next to our father.

Darren and Bethany had one more son in 2012. They named him Peter, after our late father. So they now have a little tike and a teenage daughter.

All in all, things turned out better for the remaining family members as my business really took off in the later years. And in NE. Indiana, what happens in the family…, STAYS WITHIN THE FAMILY!!!!!!!!