Family reunion

Family reunion –
they all came.
Some I hadn’t faced before:
the twins,
the extraverted playgirl,
the introverted nun,
that meek self-effacing one with a will of steel,
the romantic one-man woman.
Don’t make a scene, Lydia.
The one who hid under the front porch
and cried silently when her feelings were hurt;
who hated the poor teachers
and endured,
because of the few
who loved her thwarted selves.