56, for the very first time, my Mother found her affluent dead-beat biological Father from the French Basque Country

Introduction

At age 56, for the very first time, my Mother found her affluent dead-beat biological Father from the French Basque Country.

My maternal Grandfather,

Joseph Laurent BARRENECHE ETCHEBERRY (Jose Pepe Lorenzo)

was… The object of my affection. For me he was someone with whom I really would have liked to have had a long conversation.

My earliest memories of him are at the beginning of my consciousness. During the eight years that I lived in Pueblo Nuevo, my mother spoke of him a few times, not often but enough for me to understand that he had abandoned my mother when she was my age.

I don’t know if it was that my mother had forgotten having known her father or that they