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Meet the Brennan-Booth's – interview with Dr. Brennan
You've all heard about Dr. Temperance Brennan's bestselling novels… you've also heard about her children and don't even know it.
Dr. Temperance Brennan and FBI special Agent Seeley Booth worked together solving murders until agent Booth was forced into retirement last year but they've also been together for nearly forty-one years tough they've know each other for forty-eight.
"We had known each other for years but we hadn't tried to move to anywhere romantic. After a very traumatic event by year seven the dam broke. We had been dating for a month when I found out I was pregnant with Sarah. I was afraid he wouldn't want another child out of wedlock (agent Booth already had a son named Parker born in '01) but his first reaction was a big toothy dopey smile."
"Our daughter Sarah Christine Faith Brennan Booth was born in January of 2012 in an abandoned train" she smiles at this memory. "But that would be a whole new interview. She was the best thing that could have happened to us; she got us to the place we should have been from the beginning. I don't know where I would be now if it wasn't for her. Then when she was 15 she auditioned for American Idol along with my godson Michael and won. She had three hit albums and retired from music when she got the last out of three doctorates at age 24. She and Michael live together like me and Booth now and have a daughter named Temperance Lux after me; although she mostly goes by TLX at school. Sarah took after my footsteps and now she and her half brother do the same me and Booth did for so many years. Michael manages the history and music exhibits and his sister Katy replaced her father as the entomologist. I still go to the lab three afternoons a week; I wasn't cut out to be the crochet granny who's scared of remote controls. When my grandkids tell me that their friend's (grandparents) are retired and don't leave the house I reply 'I guess your grandmother doesn't know how to go to bed at four and being up doing laundry at 6PM'.We all laugh.
"I met Parker when he was about four. He wasn't initially happy about Christine but when he started getting overjoyed about her we found out she did his homework for fun. He went to the war in fact all of the children were either in Africa or in the army. He married his High school ex girlfriend Shelby and had two children named Peter and Morgan who are the oldest out of the grandchildren being already teenagers.
"Moving on we had quadruplets four years later. They were planned but we still didn't know we'd be getting four babies all at once. By birth order their names are David Hank, Elizabeth Angela, Emily Lynne and Zachary Seeley. Emily and Lizzie were originally Siamese twins joined by the pinky but they didn't shared bone being joined by mostly flesh and a few minor blood vessels meaning they were quickly separated with no complications.
David was the stereotypical jock went to the war like Booth and Parker, when he came back he considered getting a job as a fireman but like he wanted to have kids we went for the safest option and became a paramedic. He got married and has two sons Matthew and Tyler.
Elizabeth was a leader from the very beginning so when she told us she was going to run for president of the United States there wasn't much of a surprise. Although we were surprised when she won being six months pregnant with Haley. Tommy and Justin wanted another brother but Ryan somehow got them happy about it. Liz and Ryan are the proof that the woman being the bread winner and the man the homemaker is the future; this country is a lot better now that she ordered gay marriage to be legal in all states, created more jobs with the anti-bullying and cyber-bullying surveillance, created the 'significant other' statue for those who want a valid union without the demands of a marriage and finally got those damn desks with only one arm-rest banned forever. Four of my kids are left-handed and they all cheered this one.
I remember one time we were coming back from the beach when we saw a ran over cat (the poor thing and it's head crushed and brains all over) in the middle of the road and Emily at the time four made Booth make a U-turn and pull over. She got out of the car, wrapped the cat in her beach towel and asked Booth to drive to a hill 5 minutes away from home so the cat could have a peaceful place to rest. After the memorial service was done she removed a red flower from her hair and placed it over the 'grave'. The cat is to this day buried at the top of that hill by the willow tree and Emily goes there to place a red flower over the place where it's buried. No wonder she became a veterinarian. She and Jason created the "Animal at Home" institution which rescues stray animals and leaves them to adoption for only two dollars, giving fourteen animals a home on an average day. The animals that aren't taken home can stay there for years. The best thing I'd say is that the animals are only kept in cages at night unless they don't get along with the other animals, during the day all the cats have a football field to play in, the same for dogs, they offer babysitting while the family goes on vacation, Emily and Jason take care of the animals themselves, they return missing animals to its owner. She just whishes that there'd be more people taking cats home because they now have 300 and something cats and only 52 dogs. Thankfully there are enough part-time teenagers to keep and eye and play with them. When I want to distract my grandchildren I take them there which explain why each of my kids has at least a cat or dog. The kids grow attached to them and eventually take them home. She and Jason had two girls Leah and Zooey
Zack was always very quiet and the clingiest of my children. He used to be very sensitive would cry while watched TV and get picked on at school. When he was 15 he came out to me and then to Sarah being to sibling with whom he was closest and didn't came out to anyone else for years being Booth the last one to know. My reaction was just "Okay" and he got all "Really don't you have anything else to say? You're not mad?" "Why would I be mad? You're my son I accept you the way you are." and then he started crying on my shoulder I still don't know why. He always had a fascination with left-handedness being left-handed himself and having 3 sisters like him too. He wanted to study this subject and just last week he was able to prove that any right-handed individual would have an IQ 6 points higher if he or she had been born left-handed. He and his husband Andrew adopted a 5 year-old named Alexa for whom they live.
Madeline is my youngest; she's got Asperger's which caused her to over focus for many years and finish med school at age 20. She did her surgical internship in pediatric surgery and then became a doctor/ missionary in Africa. She also teaches the children how to read and does so much for them that the orphan group she's responsible for calls her mommy. She also got 9 out of 18 orphan children to be adopted by Americans and is trying to adopt a little girl named Zephyr whose mother died giving birth to her two years ago. Her boyfriend William is also a missionary and has a 3 year old daughter named Mariah with his deceased wife. Like she was born in Africa she actually lives there with them and only comes every on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Her accept her as granddaughter/niece/cousin anyway.
The only really important value for me to teach them was tolerance and then Booth added a couple more. They were raised the same way but made different choices: Parker, David, Liz, Emily and Zack all got married some with bigger weddings Emily was actually a Vegas wedding. Sarah chose the same option me and her father did, Maddie says she doesn't want to get married either we don't mind it's their life. Some have adopted children others biological it's all the same to us.
When you raise your kids you don't want to push them towards this or that, you can only hope that they chose a direction and somehow turn out okay, I know mine did.
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