5/19/2023 0 Comments Slammed colleen![]() ![]() They agreed to take the first three letters of both names and compromised on Layken, but neither of them has ever once referred to me as such. ![]() I was almost three days old before the hospital finally forced them to decide. "It doesn't matter which Kennedy," he would say. Dad loved the name Kennedy, after a Kennedy. She loved the name Layla, after the Eric Clapton song. She and my dad argued for nine months over what I would be named. ![]() She never seems to call me by the name she legally gave me. "Lake, stop being such a downer," my mom says as she hands me the keys to the house. A household that couldn't afford to remain in Texas and in the only home I've ever known. Long enough that my nine-year-old brother, Kel, doesn't cry every time we talk about him, but recent enough that we’re being forced to accept the financial aftermath that comes with a newly single parented household. It's been six months since he passed away. I slide the door down and pull the latch shut, locking up eighteen years of memories, all of which include my dad. Kel and I load the last two boxes into the U-Haul. ![]()
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