Marin Thomas - True Blue Cowboy

“What about your family?”

“I’m an only child. My parents still live in San Diego. My father is a retired airline pilot and they travel now.”

“I can’t imagine growing up an only child.”

She didn’t want to talk about herself. “Besides the brothers you mentioned earlier tonight, do you have any sisters?”

“One. Dixie. All of us were raised by our grandparents.” He took off his hat and set it on his knee. “The men who fathered me and my brothers wanted nothing to do with us, and my mother came and went on the farm as she pleased. None of us kids were close to her. She died before our grandparents passed away.”

“Do you like being part of a big family?”

“I don’t know any different. You get used to all the chaos that comes with seven kids trying to coexist in a house with one bathroom.”

The noise level inside their home must have been impressive.

“Grandma Ada used to threaten to spank our backsides with her big cooking spoon if we didn’t stop tearing the house apart.” He leaned forward in the chair. “Was it tough growing up an only child?”

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