The Discovery

when my grandmother was born, a near ninety years ago now, she lived in a full house with her grandmother and my mother, many brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts. When she was young we where a small family that stuck together though thick and thin. When my grandmother was young a small girl was born, and she was called Amelia. She was a bright bouncing little bundle of joy, but quite ordinary looking with limp brown hair growing from her scalp, and stubby little fingers. She loved to jump and play and wail like a beast. It was during one of theses screaming fits that grandmother brought her long weary fingers down into her hair and spoke

"Don't cry, you'll worry your mother" and everyone was shocked when she spoke her first words back

"Mother?"