3) Aliyah (At 3 Yr. Old) (From) Affine Tree Comments

I think that it was about 96 or 97 that I wrote the above piece, writing about the children, though the oldest was about seven years old and now is about sixteen or seventeen, almost ten years ago. And I still see each one of them, just about whenever I'm between jobs or on vacation: Desiree, Josh, Kevin and Capt. Lil Gary (Gary Jr.) . They are all in school and growing and doing quite well. Ironically enough, Capt. Lil Gary's little sister, Aliyah, comes by just about on a daily basis after her Mom, Nija, drops her off before heading to work and taking Capt. and the oldest of his two little sisters (Maya) to school.

Aliyah is three years old and Maya, I think is seven, one year younger than Capt. Of course, Aliyah is too young to go to school yet, so my mother, Hilda and sister, Barbara, help babysit her, and which it takes just about the both of them since she is literally what you would say as being a handful.
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