May 20
This is a picture from 2004, the last time I saw my half-sister Phyllis, my father’s daughter from his first marriage before he married my mother. She’s the second from the right. We’ve got: Riki (Phyllis’s daughter), Mom, Me, Phyllis, Windy.
Even in 2004 Phyllis had already been staying a few years in a home for dementia patients. At this visit Phyllis did not recognize me at all but she was clever in pretending.
She passed away this month and I along with Windy, Lona, and Hartley have traveled to San Ramon where tomorrow we will attend a memorial for Phyllis at Riki’s house.