Mostly she'd served as a porter carrying supplies to the Nationalist forces, but she'd gotten into combat a couple of times including once with the Co...munists. When Mao had taken over after the war she'd fled to Taiwan with what was left of her family. This had included three daughters and their children including a grandson. Eventually, her family had immigrated to the States during the Fifties. By then her own children were dead and she was living with her grandson. Her grandson had four sons. I step out onto a red carpet. It leads under the awning and then into the building. The building looks just like all the other buildings, nothing more than a warehouse or maybe a small factory."This is weird," I have to say again."Stephanie!" I hear a woman's voice yell out from the entrance. "Oh Stephanie! Glad to see you again!"A large, full figured lady steps out from the shadows. She wears a flowing dress with a low, plunging neckline. She could be someone's grandmother if not for the vast. I was in high school now and could easily have stayed home with my older b*****r to watch me, he was 19 and far too responsible for his age, he would NEVER have let anything happen to me. Despite this, they insisted I should join them, being 5 years younger than my older sibling they said they would worry too much about me. So the 3 of us pack our bags and head off for 2 weeks in July to Nevada. A grumpy teen, stressed mother and gambling additional dad….what a fun combination! The flight was. ‘Gees, Mom, you would think this is your first time to do this and not your third,’ said the petulant teen sprawled across the chair in the corner with her iPad close at hand. Her older sister poked the girl in the shoulder, but ever the honest person that Lynn raised her children to be her youngest daughter stood her ground. ‘What? It’s true, ain’t it.’ And that was the crux of the matter. Her baby girl always seemed to have a way of stripping all the layers of polite society to the very.