| A. Lily, see we have known each other for three years. B. Yeah, how time flies. A. Well, have you ever thought of ending this kind of relationship? B. What you mean? You have someone on the side? A. I mean marry me. B. I love you, but I don't want a kid. I don't feel like taking care of kids. A. My mother will. B. I cannot get on well with your mother. I don't want to live with her. A. Do salesgirls have the bargain of everything? A. I've got a letter from Aunt Caroline. You remember her, don't you, David? We stayed in her house in Florida during our honeymoon. B. Yes, I remember. She just got divorced then. She remarried a doctor later, didn't she. A. That's right. She married twice, and has children from each marriage. B. Uncle Phill, the doctor was married before, too. He has four children from his first marriage. He and aunt Caroline have three. A. Then they are all your cousins. B. I call them all cousins, all of aunt Caroline's children are my second cousins.But uncle Phill's children from his first marriage are not relatives of mine. A. What are they to each other? B. Let's see. Aunt Caroline's children from her first marriage are uncle Pill's stepchildren. Aunt Caroline is his children's stepmother. The children are stepbrothers and stepsisters. A. I've never understood that. I thought they were half brothers and half sisters. B. No, half brothers and half sisters have the same mother or father. Aunt Caroline and uncle Pill's children are half brothers and half sisters to the other children. A. It's very confusing. B. Anyway, aunt Caroline says in her letter that they will all come to visit us next Saturday. A. What, I never know who is who. |
