I finally made contact with my half-sister last week. I figured out who her son is and he seemed to be semi-active on FB so I sent him a message. That message went unread for over a week, though, because it went to his "other" message box. So I sent a friend request and he accepted (no idea why). Then I sent him another message so he'd see the first one. He passed on my message to his mom and she replied to the one I sent and gave me her number. I texted her and told her to call when she had free time.
Four hours later she finally calls. The first thing she told me was she would have called sooner but her son just called and her house is on fire...and the dog must have been, too, because she could hear it screaming in the background. Who the fuck calls a stranger when their house is on fire?? I finally got it out of her that the home is in Sugar Land and her son and his uncle were living in it. She was up north of Houston near Spring and was driving there while she called.
So she tells me she doesn't know a whole lot about our dad as he left when she was in kindergarten never to be seen again. She did call him when she was 25, and after she told him who she was he said that if she ever called again that he'd get a restraining order. I asked if we had any other siblings and she said no, but we almost did. Her mom was 8 months pregnant when she (at age 4) and her mom walked in one day and our dad was having a drunken threesome with two teenagers. Not sure how she, as a 4 yr old, knew their age. And looking back, I wish I'd asked what she meant by "teenagers" as there's a huge difference between a 13 yr old and a 19 yr old. But at the same time, I'm not sure I want to know. Anyway, her mom started fighting with the girls and wound up losing the baby. So we have no other siblings that she knows of.
The next day she sent me the only picture she has of dear ol' dad. Then she proceeds to tell me about herself. She went to rehab for the first time at 13, had her son at 14, got married for the first time at 16, was almost beat to death with steel-toed boots by that husband and his friend, and went to rehab again at 30. Her last ex husband ws murdered this past October. And now she's engaged to a 74 yr old man. She's 44. I haven't heard anything back from her since last Sunday night. Not really sure how involved in all that shit I really want to be anyway.
But my full sister and I are getting along great, though. We have texted or talked every day since our first conversation back on Jan 18th. We'll probably try and meet sometime next fall. I'd like to do it sooner, but once softball begins in a few weeks I'll be tied up coaching that until the end of July, and then my son gets married in August.