We Don't Always Have the Option of Choosing Our Family
Nicki is Rochelle's sister. She's not in any of the family pictures that were taken at Tony and Rochelle's wedding 5 1/2 years ago. I was not aware that she even had a third sister. All of them have an "L" sound at the end of their name - but Nicki has chosen to go by her middle name. I think Rochelle told me that Nicki had withdrawn herself from the family and started to go by Nicki at that time - though I could be wrong. I actually don't know Rochelle as much as I'd like. I certainly don't know her family - only what Tony paints for me - which is less than flattering. But Tony always sees the lemons rather than the potential of lemonade. Rochelle's mother passed away only two months after she and Tony married - which wasn't a great surprise; neither of her parents was in the best of shape, but I somehow believed that Rochelle's dad would go fi...