During the next few years, my older three uncles enlisted in the military. The youngest child was taken to live with his father a few hours away. This gave Mom some time for herself. She began working full time and finally had a new found sense of “freedom.”
Mom loved the job she had found. It was a perfect fit for her. Little did she know it would lead to the rest of her life. She worked with a lovely woman … Helen was her name. She was always trying to get Mom to go out with her son who was also in the military. Mom had no desire to meet this man or any other. She loved her single life, and didn’t want to “complicate” it with a military man.
“He’ll be home soon, Dorothy. Won’t you meet him just this once?”
Mom thought long and hard about it. After all, it was the same question day in and day out.
“Truthfully, I really wanted to go home and relax this evening,” Mom said, thinking she can take a subtle hint.
But that was not Helen’s way … she had already planned for her son, Leroy, to stop by for the “chance” encounter between the two. The “chance of a lifetime” meeting was more like it …
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