Saturday

New dad, husband, and baby less than two years

Mom met and married my step dad, Ray, in Dec ,69, when I was 15. He was the only real dad we ever had. He was good to mom and us kids. My brother who was 14 months older than me, didn't want to be told what to do by anyone, so he started acting out. First, he started skipping school. When mom found out, I got beat for that, cause I should have told her. Charles never even got in trouble for it! Oh well, I was use to it, but it just made a hard heart, harder.
Charles ran away not long after they were married. He would call home every 6 months or so. And always made it home for his birthday, which was in Nov.
I met Don when I was in the 11th grade. His grandma live down the lane that was attached to our drive way. A friend of mine was dating his best friend, Richard. She ask me if I wanted to go on a double date. I told her sure. I was the only one with a car, so I picked them all up. I didn't know my way around Alex. So we ended up out in the country riding around. I found out later when ask where we went, he told his mom I took him out to the country and left it at that! Boys will be boys! We were both 16 at the time. He also told her that I was the one he was going to marry. How he knew that I have no idea. All he talked about was cars!!! It was a long 2 hours.
That was in Aug. He gave me his ring Sept. 5th 1970. We married Jan, 23rd 1971
Mom, dad and his mom went with us to Anderson court house so we could get married, but they wouldn't let us, because I wasn't pg.
Then Don, his mom, Richard,(a friend) and I went to KY and tried to get married. That didn't work.
Finally, mom, dad, Don's mom, and us went to KY and we finally got married after 4 times of trying! I was pg by then for our first child.
I was 16, Don was 17.

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