Unraveling Debauchery Volume 2: Family Haunts

By Jane Braaten

Family Haunts. Worth remembering. Remembering worth. Born to an educator and a carpenter with three sisters and three brothers, I never stopped working hard, laughing the most and questioning how survival happened. Families share ghosts. Ghosts share families. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jane Braaten
• Release date: Feb 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215623565

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A Sister Wall

Four of us...Still here.

Just like Louisa’s Little Women

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—

But we are Jo, Judy, Kris and Jane.

Or Mary McCarthy’s The Group,

Or Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias.

Mother is gone, but she is still here.

We know.  We know.

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The eldest Mary Jo Claire

Named after four aunts.

Now you wonder—

Three names, four aunts.

Marian, Mary, Josephine and ina Claire

Jo needs no salutation.

When she graduated from High School

I was in first grade. 

i knew how to spell valedictorian

Because of her.

Her only child has a MA from Yale

in architecture.

Jo has degrees in math and German,

Never been to Germany though.

Her daughter’s been there twice.

Rheumatic Fever damaged her heart

But not her soul.

Then rare Cushing’s Syndrome

Destroyed her well being for a decade.

Mayo found the tumors after

She is self diagnosed.

Tumor came out from the base of her brain.

A year later, they operated on her heart.

Early in her life, Jo eloped. 

Made Mother cry.

He came back from Viet Nam

A changed man.

So she changed a little.

But she reads a book a day

And prays and finds gentle