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"Hang
on… you don’t KNOW if the marriage was annulled?
No.
Does
she?
She
said she has forgotten.
There
MUST be a record somewhere.
My
mum put everything in storage and we lost it in the floods.
Does
she live on the Island?
No
she has a campsite by the lake.
Have
you stayed there?
She
hit me with the telephone.
The
telephone?
Three
times.
Does
she know about the house?
Mum
told her.
Why?
She
likes causing trouble."
Finished the Crème Catalan, rang my finger
around the bowl.
"Hang
on who’s your mum – her or her?
She’s
my mum. She’s only my step mum.
Only
if the marriage hasn’t been annulled. What about your brother? Is he still
married to the woman in Germany?
I’m
not sure.
Wait,
he’s your half brother – is she HIS mum?
No.
Who’s
his dad?
The
milkman.
The
milkman?
Jimmy.
You
know his name?
Yep,
we spent Christmas together once."
Finished the salmon.
"When
did your brother find out?
Last
week.
How
did he react?
He
said his mum and dad must have really loved me to keep it a secret and pretend.
His
not-dad?
My dad.
So,
ok, you have rights to the songs, what about her?
No.
How
come?
He
left it all to me.
And
your half brothers?
That
was me.
So
who owns the house?
It
might be ours, but there’s about twelve of us.
Might?
There’s
a court case.
How’s
it going?
We proved
we owned a piece of land under the brewery.
But
not the Brewary?
No.
Are
they still brewing?
Yes,
think so. My real name is Whatsalitz.
What?"
Finish the Patatas Bravas, run my finder
around THAT bowl too.
"Yes.
When my great granddad came here they asked him his name and he said Paul.
Ok.
Then
they asked him what his first name was and he said Paul- his English wasn’t
English at the time. So they registered him as Paul Paul.
Your
name’s not Paul.
No my
Grandmother married a non-Paul.
How
did you find out there was a house?
The
owners want us to own it so that they can do it up.
That
didn’t make sense. Who owns it, the government?
They
won’t do it up.
So
the people who live in it want someone to do it up, hang on … who lives in it?
Someone
else. They rent it.
From
the Government?
From
a lawyer.
Who’s
the lawyer?
Our
cousin. He wants it done up so he can charge more rent.
There’s
rent? How many years?
Seventy
years.
You
could get a cut of that.
We
owe money already. For the translations."
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