Beatrice Colleen Dixon Suva

She thought she was his first wife; turns out, she was his fifth. I thought I had seven siblings; turns out, she’d given birth to two more. “Call me Beatrice,” she said, even though my father’s marriage certificate referred to her as “Colleen.” She trusted me enough to share her part of the story; I figured out the ways in which it intersects with mine. Rest in peace, Beatrice “Colleen” Dixon Suva: I will tell our story true.