Remembering

Christina Kennard AKA Tina, was born in a little town in south Texas, her mother Manuela, called also Mani, was a smart working kid, since she was 13, but when she was 17, she met that young and handsome biologist who came from the north to study the contamination of the river; Louis Christian Kennard, Tina’s father, was the youngest child of a very rich family, of which he was the black sheep, while his brothers father and uncles were making lots of money and looking for other investments to increase the family fortune; Louis care for nature, for beauty, and for people, and he fell in love with the half-blood Latino teenager with dark brown hair and hazel eyes; as in many of the very southern Texans families, Mani was taught not to give her body until after marriage, and as many of her friends, she didn’t care about that rule, so, Louis and Mani married when she was four months pregnant, and five months later she gave birth to a beautiful and pinky girl of green eyes and blonde hair, who they named Louise, two years later Mani got pregnant again having another baby girl, who was born when Louise was almost 3, they called her this time Christina, the new baby has golden hair and hazel eyes; unfortunately Louis didn’t tell his father about his marriage, until three years after the wedding and two daughters, which was taken very bad for his father, who was hoping to marry his youngest son with some girl, the heir of another powerful and rich family; Louis was left without money and had to work as a cowboy to support his family, but when Tina was 10, he suffers a fatal accident dying.

The Kennard family lived in New York, they were rich, powerful and egoistic, John Kennard, Louis’ father, had three sons, Michael and Donovan, born from the first marriage, who already have families giving old John two grandsons; Louis was her third son from a second marriage, but none of John’s wives lived with him very long, the first wife divorced and marry a diplomat moving to another country, then came Louis’ mother, Audrey, the daughter of a wealthy man, who made his fortune in a hardworking way; though when she married John, she was really in love, things change shortly after the wedding, when she realized, the marriage injected a big amount of money in the almost broken group of companies of her now husband; a few months later she discovered who really was him, a heartless business man; but she was already pregnant, and after the birth of her child, for several years she pretended to see and hear nothing about John’s business, she dedicated herself to raise her son; but when the boy went to college, she decided to file for divorce, which John didn’t initially accept, not because he loved her, anyway he already had a line of lovers and escorts around him, but because a divorce would produce an economic loss in his flourishing business, and he didn’t want that, so, the separation was a hard fight for Audrey; but finally they reached an agreement, Audrey wouldn’t remove her money from John’s enterprises, but she would remain as a member of the executive board with her own shares in the little economic empire John was building, nonetheless the rudeness and coldness in John’s business management, made her feel depressed until succumbing into alcohol and drugs; then, she was interned in a rehabilitation clinic for a while, and when Louis died, she had just left the clinic to be again emotionally destroyed by the loss of her son.