Sara @ Moonrize

So, the family tree goes like this:

Maria Tapia (hens-forth referred to as TiTi) Was married to a man in Costa Rica (Silvio Tapia) and she gave birth to Maritza and Silvia Tapia. Silvio died and TiTi moved to LA. In the city of angels, she met Louis Downing-Abad. When she met Louie, she was pregnant with William Jimenez. Louie and TiTi had Louis Jr Abad, David Abad and Mike Abad (twins).

In the same city – about the same time – Jane Raymond was married to Hussein Hossenzadeh and giving birth to Erik Corey Hossenzadeh and Della Hossenzadeh. They split shortly after.

Titi and Louie split and Louie and Jane got married.

They had Daniel Downing (by this time, Louie had stopped using the Abad on his name) and Sara Downing. They split shortly after that.

10 years later, Jane adapted David Downing (same last name as her son and daughter but no relation). She then, three years later, adopted Kelly Hewitt.

The family tree – in order of birth goes:

Maritza Tapia
Silvia Tapia
William Jimenez
Louie (jr) Abad
Corey Hossenzadeh
David Abad (twin)
Mike Abad (twin)
Della Hossenzadeh-Caldwell
David Downing
Daniel Downing
Kelly Hewitt
Sara Downing-Kee

I have 2 step sisters, 1 step brother, 4 half brothers, 1 full bio brother, 1 half sister and 2 adopted brothers.

Here’s the reason I had to type out the family tree. Recently I have “found” (on facebook anyway – we never physically lost each other) my oldest sister Maritza. She lives in San Diego and we dont get to see each other a lot. Neither one of us is very good on the phone and we dont talk a lot. However, I ADORE her and I love her so much. I have a billion memories of her growing up…my motorcycle riding, leather wearing, big sister.

There isnt much my family got right growing up (with the exception of Titi, that is). No one stayed married to ANYONE. No one stayed sober or out of jail very much. None of the adults could handle us kids – to be fair, there were a lot of us. Having said that….there were some things that we DID get right – one of them is that your family is decided by your heart and not your bloodline. I dont know if that came from us kids…knowing that maybe the only thing we could count on was each other? Or maybe the adults gave us that – and maybe they gave us that because they were self aware enough to know we could count on each other more than them?

Either way – I love my big sister. I love that I get to see what she’s doing daily now. I love feeling her “hugs” via Facebook and knowing that we may not share blood, but she’s my sister through and through.

Love you Maritza!

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