A Family Story

The following is true.

Ty was a beautiful woman, at 39 she was 6 years younger than her oldest stepdaughter Lisa and less than half the age of her husband George. A literal princess, Ty had left Samoa at the tender at of 20 to marry a man nearly 40 years her senior and become an American citizen. It was perhaps her naiveté that lead her to believe he was rich or maybe it was George himself, but George didn’t offer all that she had hoped and she in turn gave George (who had more than his fair share of experience with the opposite sex, marital or not) much more than what he had bargained for.
Nobody really knows what exactly had happened and if you were to ask Ty to explain herself she most likely couldn’t. There had been warning signs, most recently an ugly altercation at the supermarket which entailed assaulting a fellow shopper in the frozen food aisle with a loaf of bread (one is hard pressed not to picture a large loaf of stale French bread used in lieu of a bat). Luckily (or perhaps not) the woman did not press charges.
Today however, was much different and much, much worse. Ty awoke at the usual time and went about her usual routine which consisted of nothing much really. She conversed with her sister who was bravely fighting cancer while raising children without a husband. Ty’s nieces and nephews knew well enough to steer clear of their aunt as would any stranger that gave her a good look in the eye. George was quietly tending to the house that was now overrun with Ty’s family members (Ty’s brother was now living there too for no reason other than to be living in the states, rent free).
It is unknown why Ty decided to take her clothes off and not replace them. Even more unclear is why exactly she was in possession of a samurai sword or how exactly she found it in a house filled with a lifetime of junk. Most perplexing however, was why she, samurai sword in hand, went for a walk sans clothes down the street to the neighborhood church.
As Ty reached the church she was greeted by the both the postman and the gardener, she greeted each of them with the samurai sword. The gardener is still alive.