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Divorced

Mother

He and I later divorced in 1978. It was sad time for us both of, of us but 2 years later, we got married again but a year later divorced again. Then thirty-three years later, we moved back to Safford from Germany. Your dad asked me to marry him for the third time.

Jennifer

So my mother left us behind with our dad. We were going to school, and the bus picked us up and brought us home. We had to do housecleaning and take our trick-or-treat in the car. Holly didn’t have the door shut, so her candy fell out of the car; and I had to share my candy with her. One day, my dad took us to Brother Alfred’s house where my aunt Judy lived, and we walked with her kids to school. We had my birthday at my aunt Judy’s and Easter too. We had fun over at our Aunt Judy’s. She would babysit us when dad was working.

I didn’t know where my mom went after the divorce, and we didn’t know much about her. Not even around the house; no one ever brought her name up. One day, our dog got out of the fence and got run over. We didn’t have money to take her to a veterinary doctor. Dad picked her up and loaded in the truck and took her to a dumpster and shot her. Holly ran in the house, called Aunt Judy, told her what happened and what my dad did. We went one time to a Mexican restaurant and ate there. Then my mom told him no because he had a wife and was married. But then he asked his wife, Molly, for a divorce.

Mother

I still told him no, that he and I could be good friends; but I did not want to get married again to anyone. I was single for over five years, and then five years ago was a very sad day for all of us. Your daddy was a good man.

Jennifer

But still, I have a question for my mom: why did she not take us after the second divorce?