it all started here

my life, some have said, would make for a great soap opera storyline.

my mother, who was a young, divorced mother of one daughter already,  fell in love with a sailor  home on leave.  sounds like a real love story doesn’t it?  I wish I could say it was.  but the sad truth is, he went back to port and thrown in the brig for being awol. (absent without leave)  how ya like them apples?!  I was conceived while my father committed a crime! LOL  I make light of it, because I have to.  the truth is, they fell madly in love.  but when he couldn’t be there with her, his brother (my dad) stepped up to the plate.. and chose to raise me as his own.  he quickly married my mother, and set out to raise my sister and I.  things didn’t work out, as you can only imagine.. with a man and woman who didn’t love each other.  marriages of convenience or necessity rarely ever work out.  so, after I was born, they soon divorced.

upon their divorce, my mother was called to care for her own mother, who was dying of cancer.  so, custody was given to my dad.  that is where I remained for the next seven years.

if you’re wondering what happened to my father, well.. he was sent a letter, asking him to accept the terms and never speak of it again.  he would not be my father.. he would be my uncle.  the family ‘secret’ began.  so, he did his time, and finished up his naval enlistment.. never once going against the wishes of my mother. 

… to be continued