San Sebastian Avnue
By
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The photograph of my brother and I wearing nice clothes and shoes, says it all. We wore rags! All we got for Christmas, was clothing. Did Rosemary rent these clothes? I don’t recall wearing them after, the Catholic Church Easter Event. Rosemary is fulfilling our family obligations to the Order of Saint Francis. Perhaps one of her sons – will see the light?
This photo was taken in 1956. Mark and I had worked for two years at Acme Produce. It’s hard to believe. We are – small! I don’t expect to get any empathy. We got none from our peers when we told we have to go to work. They couldn’t relate. It made them feel very uneasy. Did they wonder if the day their father took them to work -was coming? The way Mark handled it was to make me accept he was my boss, if he was only my foreman. This way he could be seen as an adopt guy helping his hapless brother – who might be mentally ill. I was a good worker – for a commoner! My second boss kept his eye on me. We had horrific fistfights. He claimed he was The Family Nurturer? What do you say?
Everything changed when I did a water color of a sailing boat in the seventh grade. I was chosen Artist of the Week, and it hung in the hall. When Rosemary saw it, she had us dress all in white – and pose before this painting. We felt we were recruited in our mother’s hidden agenda that enflamed her acute narcisism…..in a holy way? All our achievements were confiscated for the cause. Mark made that windmill, but got no praise. He put it where everyone could see it. But, they didn’t. My star was on th ascendant on……San Sebastian Avenue!
It was my high forehead that got me in much trouble with the three narcissists that hover over me. At two, Mark became very jeaous of it, as it greew highter and higher. His forehead was a Broderick thing, mean, and squat. When we were alone he woulld drag me over to the closestwall and beatmy head against it. When Rosemary came bursting in, Mark cried out
“Help me Mommy! I can’t get him to stop hitting his head against the wall!”
After a week of these viscous attacks, Rosemary burst in, threw me to the floor, took my head in her hands – and beat my head against the floor, in what she thought was reverser psychology.
“So! You want to hit your head. I’ll hit your head – for you!”
In one photo she gives Mark a hairdo to make his forehead look as high as mine. He did no fall for it. Till the day he died, he had ito ut for me.
Just then the phome rang.
“Hello!” John said to Micky McMantel, the private detective his attorney hired.
“Good news, Presco. I found those missing tombstones that were put in from of Raohston Hall 1852. , They belong to Johannes and Alicia Stuttmeister who left Saint Louis with John Sutter. They were members of the Turnverein who were colonizing the Americas. Johannes had a bother Hugo who stayed with Sutter when he went to Fort Ross. It looks like you not only own all of Belmont, but all the land from there – to San Joe. Johanne was a fur trapper who sent pelts to the Suttmeisters in Berlin. That’s how they got wealthy. The bad new is, Putin just put a contract out on you. He was looking for the same information. He just claimed Fort Ross – and much more! You go to get out of there! I sent someone to help. Her name is Mary Waterrose. Be nice. She a very edgy person.”
To be contused.
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence, they are not sure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sutter
In North America, John Augustus Sutter (as he would call himself for the rest of his life) undertook extensive travels. Before he went to the United States, he had learned Spanish and English in addition to French. He and 35 Germans moved from the St. Louis area to Santa Fe, New Mexico, then a province of Mexico, then moved to the town of Westport, now the site of Kansas City. On April 1, 1838, he joined a group of missionaries, led by the fur trapper Andrew Drips, and traveled the Oregon Trail to Fort Vancouver in Oregon Territory, which they reached in October. Sutter originally planned to cross the Siskiyou Mountains during the winter, but acting chief factor James Douglas convinced him that such an attempt would be perilous.[7] Douglas charged Sutter £21 to arrange transportation on the British bark Columbia for himself and his eight followers.[7]
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