I'm 97 and here for my Great Great Grandchildren

[Warpy]

23. If she hadn't been forced into a marriage neigher partner was ready for

it might have been a lot easier for her. As it was, she had another kid the following year and after that she was able to get the pill. That's what the early 60s were like.

She kicked that husband to the curb in her early 20s, got her GED and associates in bookkeeping, a job that paid the bills for her amd her two kids because the husband was a classic deadbeat, the marriage and responsibilities too young had broken him beyond repair.

I was much better off discovering drugs and rock & roll.

My cousin did OK, although we both laughed about swapping the title of Family Scandal back and forth for decades. Her kids turned out fine, even if the eldest insisted getting married in her teens. She defied the odds and the marriage has lasted, even if she did age my cousin (and myself) by making my cousin a grandma at 32.

I guess it's obvious, I miss my cousin more than most of my family. I really think she and I were the sane ones in our extended family.