dream

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last night's dream:  I was going on a cruise with some of my classmates from Tulane U, including little e, whom I have not spoken with in a really long time, even though she lives in Austin. Anyhoo, we were on the ship and having drinks and I said something offhand about being childfree, and little e said she'd actually had a kid during a time when she was living and going to school in Houston, a son. And that the father was very strangely coincidentally, my step-cousin 'Tiger'. I told her that Tiger had died  (that is true in RL, a car wreck or something? My stepdad told me about it when I was visiting IN  a couple months ago. No love lost between Tiger and my dad or his brother; apparently he'd gotten in with some kind of evangelical grifter situation and was absolutely insufferable in his self righteous yet criminal machinations. I saw a tiny bit of it at his mom's funeral several years ago, his mom being my stepdad's sister, ANYHOOOO)   e. said she hadn't kept in touch with Tiger at all, the kid was a product of basically a one night stand, and she'd given him up for adoption right away.  The conversation in my dream then shifted to how 'sneaky' I was because apparently Thax and I had somehow snuck off to the cruise services desk and paid the remaining balance on everyone's cruises, and e. had wanted to be the one to pay for ours. So we kinda laughed about that. Then e. met up with her father, who was an officer on the ship. He was helping her with an outfit for some fancy formal event on the ship and she was arguing with him over wearing fishnet stockings.  

It was a very strange dream.