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Omer.

After the mother gave birth to me, I was sent by mail to the mother's mother's house. Not really, I'm kidding. You can't send a person in the mail. Sometimes I joke, but not much. Only when I'm in the right mood.

I don't remember how I was brought me here. Probably after the mother died (because she was alone on her trip to the dark hill with a pregnant belly and no one heard her screaming loudly on the mountain when I started to get out of her body), the mother's mother came, which is a grandmother. She got to Portugal on a plane.

In the meantime I have been in a place where babies are left if they have no one attached to them like a father or mother or brother or sister or other things.

There were two people, Delores and Javier, who found the mother who gave birth to me and me screaming and I was really dirty in the sand and abundant womb slime because I just got out of there, and they called an ambulance and the police and the fire department. Just kidding, they didn't call the fire department because there was no fire to sufficate. Except for me, that I am hot, that's what the mother's mother would say sometimes, when she joked like me when I'm in the right mood.

When she came to take me from Sao Miguel to her home here - which after that was our home. She also bought me with money all kinds of life stuff like clothes and food. She bought me one garment, which I still have now, a green coat. But I put it on my head instead of on my body because then it protects from the raindrops and it's also funny. A dual purpose is achieved. And if it's cold I put another coat on, because it's no longer possible to wear the green one that the mother's mother bought me, because it was when I had a small body like Yaron's and it doesn't fit me well anymore.

And then when the mother's mother died, the mother's mother's son took me. Or the first mother's brother. Yair. He was married to Delores, but not the Delores who found me and the mother with Javier on Monte Escuro, another Delores.

Then Yair was the father and Delores was the new (third) mother even though she was also the wife of the son of the mother of the mother or the wife of the brother of the first mother. But then there was no longer her as a mother, because Yair is gay so he loves men, and Delores is a woman, so it didn't work out. But it's okay, because there are plenty of other fish in the sea.

Delores still used to come sometimes to visit but usually it was just to say "Hello, wow, you grow up so fast!" and leave. She wasn't angry at Yair because it's not his fault that he is gay, so she also remained his girlfriend who is just a friend without the kisses, except for on the cheeck.

Then there was Avi, who was father second edition, at the same time there was father first edition. But it's not really true, because it was too late for me to suddenly have another father, so he's just Avi.

Avi and Yair were friends with kisses on the mouth, and then they also got married in the country where I was born - Portugal. We traveled there together but we didn't get to Monte Escuro even though I wanted to. When they were married we came back here again.

And all this time, since Avi was, there was Yaron, too, who is Avi's son. Yaron was two years old when Avi was here, and now he is six. When people ask me for my age I always say "ninety-three". I don't really know how old I am. They ask again and again and I keep answering "ninety-three". Eventually they all give up. I'll be ninety-three forever.