| Chapter Three: Crossroads
After High School I worked for the telephone company. On my birthday Thurlow sent me one dozen roses, the only ones I ever received. They were beautiful. That didn't set too well with Cyril, but my mother loved it (she really liked Thurlow and said Cyril was not for me). I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO HER!!! Cyril and I got engaged in the summer of 1946. By September Thurlow came home from the Navy on leave and came over to see me. Cyril arrived about an hour later. By the end of the evening, I had broken my engagement and Cyril was trying to sell my ring to Thurlow so he wouldn't loose his money. Thurlow said "NO thanks... I'll buy her my own.” For the next seven days I went out with him and then he had to go back to San Diego. He wanted to take me with him and get married there, but I said I couldn't go right then. We continued to write to each other, but by Christmas I had decided to take the ring back and got it for Xmas. That was a night I will NEVER forget. So I worked. The day before New Years 1947 my mother had a stroke. The following week on Monday Jan 6th, she had another one and died at exactly 9:40 PM. Believe it or not, SUSIE was born on a Monday night at exactly 9:40 PM. I thought that was a good omen but I WAS WRONG! After my mother died Pop-Pop said that he thought we should get married as he didn't think we should live in the same house (Pop-pop suggested that we get married because he was afraid people would talk. I was 20 and he was 40). We could have all the furniture and he would stay as a roomer and help us out. Cyril had gotten out of the Navy and was also working for AT&T (making $28.00 per week, I was making $26). Uncle Billy was also living with us. It was a choice I had to make. Either go back and live with my father and that bitch, or get married. ... NEXT |
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