曾錚的圖片故事（7）Jennifer’s Photo Stories (7)

曾铮

This rare and precious family photo was taken when I was five. My mother was holding my sister, who was less than one year old. Others in the photo are my father, my grandfather, my step-grandmother, and my mother’s two half brothers.
這張照片是我五歲時照的。我母親抱著我不到一歲的妹妹，其他幾個人分別是我外公、外婆、爸爸和兩個舅舅。

My mother’s biological parents divorced when she was only a one year old child. She was then adopted by her uncle. So my mother always said she had three pairs of parents to look after: her adoptive parents, her biological father and his second wife; as well as her biological mother and her second husband. My mother had always been on good terms with everyone in the huge and complicated families. Life was very tough; but she was even tougher; always trying to stay on top of everything.

我母親的親生父母在她一歲時就離異了，之後我母親被過繼給她的伯父。所以母親一直說她有三重父母要孝敬：養父母、親生母親與繼父、親生父親與繼母。我記得我小時候，我母親常常需要輪流到不同城市去看望照顧這三重父母。雖然三個大家人很多、關係也複雜，但要強的母親與人人都相處的很好，她做事爲人都很周到，無人能說出她什麼不好來。

這張照片中的是我母親的親生父親與他的第二任妻子。