Flies without Wings
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“Let me make something very clear to you. I will honor your request, at your expense and when the test comes back and says with certainty that you are my father, don’t ever call me again.” I stood firm and I felt strong. For once, since the bus incident with Junior back in Tennessee, I felt vindicated and empowered. 99.97% is what the test read. After all the work I put into finding my father, a man who by all accounts never did anything for me in all my life, it boiled down to this. Momma once told the story of how persistent he was about paternity in the beginning. The story was that he’d shown up a few times at my grandmother’s bearing gifts; a tricycle even. Momma would refuse them in hopes that he would finally get the message. He did when she married John. Now here we are. For someone who’d never asked him for a thing, I was now being asked to give blood to determine my worth. Don’t that beat all?!
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In retrospect, I should have kept it to myself. Maybe not say anything to her about it at all but, I did. I got the reaction I thought I would but in reality I’d hoped for something different. “I wish you would have told me when it happened, I would have killed that bastard” is what she said. That angered me more than the act itself because I believed she knew. After all, it wasn’t the first time that molestation charges would be brought against him and obviously it wouldn’t be the last. Or maybe it was. I’ll never know. Years later he was found dead as a door knob.
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I've always had a fondness for writing, poetry was my focus. In high school, I won first place in a literature contest. Writing a book is a first. An entrepreneur by nature, I enjoy trying new things. Becoming an author was not intentional but after putting word to paper, it seemed to flow naturally. I like to push the envelope of my dreams by challenging myself to "just do it". In my lifetime I want to do all of the things I dream of doing ,at least once. I reside in a suburb of Chicago with my husband and son. My past time is quiet moments and lazy Sundays. My greatest accomplishment to date comes in the form of co-raising a handsome ,smart and talented young man who happens to have a passion for writing too.