All five sisters showed up at the funeral.

Well half sisters really.

Stan’s five secrets – that weren’t really that secret – but seeing them all together underlined their shared traits…their age span underscored just how long he’d felt the need to pursue women and build relationships outside our family. A man consumed by wanderlust…

Mum wasn’t surprised and hugged each of them in their grief.Content that someone wanted her comfort. I couldn’t help but think if either me or my brother had been a girl would anything have been different?

Dad loved and connected with women…perhaps I just needed to embrace Stan’s final wish…my brother Paris and my half sisters Sydney, London, Maine, India and Carolina…and me, Oslo, were going on a long trip. A tour if you will, of our sites a la conception.