The Recurrence of the Matriarch

22 YEARS AGO "How's my sweet and beautiful Elara?" mom said while swinging me on her arms. "Over my dead body we will name her Elara, what does that even mean,?" dad rebutted. "Elara is one of the largest moons of Jupiter" " So we're naming our child after a moon?, should we just give our child a name like Krystal" "Krystal?, you are so plain" "Krystal, like a precious element, but alternate spelling." "Okay fine, let's name her Krystal Elara." "Soon you will discover how your father can be incredibly unreasonable and persuasive at times" mom said. My dad met my mom at the University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She fell in love with him when she caught him staring at the bright night sky sitting on a bench near the University. My dad wasn't really open about that time, she didn't tell me much about mom, but my aunt Felicia told me about my mother Clary... Her name was Clarissa Adair-Bauman, she was a great woman who saw the best in people and who was down to Earth person. "No,oh,no,no, please we'll give you money, please don't hurt us, no,no, not the telescope, please, we'll give you anything but the telescope." 'Clary... Cla!"