well new year's eve ended nicely for me, i got to meet my long lost family. well i wouldnt say long lost, but lost, because some of them lived just a few metres from my home, some a few miles and i didnt even know they were family. it all started earlier this year when my mother was having a convo with a coworker and she was talking about her children and mentioned my surname. so her coworker asked her who my father was and grandfather, so she mentioned a good for nothing williams from bath estate, remember she said that not me, lol. the coworker then said if is a williams from bath estate then it must be his cousin, so that is how it came to knowing that my extended family on one part of my father's side of my family actually existed more than a mere illusion or more than names mentioned under the breathes of other people. my cousin then contacted me and told me he would one day bring me to meet up with the entire family. i didnt take that for much cuz my father had always promised to do that but we never made it outside of bath estate. u would swear it was the biggest community in the world.

so months after, i met my cousin, well for details sake, grand cousin, in the streets of bath estate, he said he would return the following day, to check on me to bring me to meet the rest of the family. i waited that day until i grew tired of waiting. i was already in bed when he arrived, althought it was quite early, around 5 in the afternoon, dont laugh, i was feeling under the weather that day. i still went ahead and i didnt regret it either. although i only met a handful of members, i got to understand the scope of my family, the huge numbers, the fact that most were out of the island in america, england, st martin and other places, there were more williams out of Dominica than in it. some told me that they never knew my father had a child or children. my grand aunt spent the time telling me of my great grand parents and grand father, i had only met him briefly once before his death. the semi-reunion made me feel good, for long i had wondered, well just to myself, if i was part of a bigger family and who my family was. well now i know, i intend to keep the communication lines open, nothing can compare to family, even if it is one you only got at 26

Jetzzz