(For anyone who is continuing their journey with me in reading as I post, or those starting now, I am so sorry but I have been spelling my second oldest character’s name wrong. It is Louis. Not Louise. I am so sorry. But the correction has been made from this story on.) Chapter 1- I…
Chapter 1- I always was one to stick up for my siblings. No matter what was said or done I was there for them. I remember one of those rare days we had at school when we had recess one of our classmates, John Franklin, who is a year older than me, was picking on…
Chapter 1- Hearing Mama calling for us children, I quickly jumped up out of bed. Grabbing my robe, I quickly slipped out of the shared room. My 2 sisters and I shared a room. The 3 younger boys shared a room while William had his own. He was lucky sometimes. I had to use the…
Chapter 1- It was Tuesday October 24th 1929. Even though I was only 7 I think that is one date that will always be etched in my young mind forever. Even though the adults didn’t quite understand the full facts of what quite happened yet. One evening in early November as the family sat around…
(Late summer of ‘29) Chapter 1 – When I was only 7 the unthinkable happened. I had found myself out by the road one day when a truck drove up and noisily came to a rough stop a few feet away from me. Looking up from the flowers I was picking, I saw a man…