we continue.

so we have a mother on speed, who wants to keep her baby.
Lets talk about the father. we allready know that he has problems keeping his pants zipped. we know that he is 27 years older than his wife/ actually his second wife, his first wife,with whom he has a daughter older than his current wife, is living in another city.
(and please note that everything i writing is the truth. none of this is fabricated and and most all of it can be verified).
This father had lead a very interesting life. when he was born there were 0 miles of paved road in NC. most homes did not have electricity, or inside bathrooms.
By this point in his life he had been in the navy just after WWI, a successful boxer holding some featherweight titles. he had moved to california where he worked and lived in hollywood as a stunt double for James Cagney.
he also ran and sold moonshine, and was a car salesman.
he had made and blown more money than anyone in his wife's family had ever seen. When he met his second wife, he had suits, not overalls. he owned his own car. and appeared on the fast track, well as fast as you got in 1945 when me married this 15 year old who had never traveled more than a hundred miles from home.
But since they had married things had not gone as anyone had thought. He was much better and spending than saving or investing. The story goes that he was in florida driving in a then quaint little town called miami and there were signs advertising land for $ 15.00 an acre, in what would now be downtown. he supposedly had over a hundred dollars in his pockets but he did not think land would be a good investiment... he worked at numerous odd jobs trying to support his growing family. but things were not going well.
We are back to a smoking, speed taking expecting mother who wants to keep her baby.
We dont know how it was decided but, the baby was allowed to come to term. The delivery, that cold december , was anything but routine. a surgeon was called in to try and save both the mother and child. I now understand that God's will kept both the mother and child alive. and just to make it interesting they had to break the baby's left arm during the delivery. I was told that there is nothing more moving than seeing a new born child with it's tiny arm in a cast..
Dont worry I dont remember it hurting ..
I would hope before now you would have gotten that I'm the child and the roudy old man and the innocent young girl were my parents.