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Just the Three of Us

I think we're weird, me, my sister and my brother.
I think we grew up a little weird.
We're pretty close and we've always found that managing our family (meaning our Mom and Dad--now just our Mom) requires a team effort.  If one of us tries to do it alone, we are doomed to failure...kinda dramatic sounding but true.
In honor of my distant but ever present sibs, I have these pictures of us through the years.  We always seemed to be together, even when we weren't.
We have been fortunate to find lifelong partners who are friends, too and we are so grateful.  But when it comes to working through the issues of our aging mother (who is totally in denial), we are so glad to have each other.  It really is a team effort.  Yay team!

June 16 2010-our Parents would have been married 59 years...

Aunty Bunny's story in her own words

I left the islands in 1951 to go to college and did not return for 25 years, at my mother's death. There was virtually not that much communication except for an occasional letter from grandma or Ethel or Leo. They all helped with finances and wardrobe etc, so it was imperative for me to return their favors when we did come back. It was also pay back time when Auntie Ethel got sick and Charta needed help with her. We got along with each other. Ethel and Leo and Wini and I always had a good relationship from the time I was a little girl. Your mom looked upon me as the pesky little sister who use to spy on her while she and your dad made out in the car parked outside the Hillcrest house.

She was also popular with the Kam School guys who use to scream in unison Margaret ---- as they passed the house. That use to infuriate grandma. Her first beau was a kid from Kam School. His name was Charles Willingham, he was redheaded and did not look like he belonged in Kam School. No sign of being hawaiian. You should ask her if you want to get her goat. I thought he looked DORKY! It was fun to tease her when she was a teenager and I was a brat, she didn't have a sense of humor, just like now. Tht is why I love to upset her even to this very day.