While the adults in the scenerio were carying on their ghetto soap opera, their children were growing up. My grandmother's kids: April, Tracy, Fred, Teresa, Eddie, Brenda (my mother), Little Jackie, Freda, and Frida; were Growing up with my grandfathers kids: Michael, Donnie Jr (my father), Nijea, Nicole, and and Nichelle. My grandmother, due to her affair, was disfellowshiped from the kingdom hall, and with my brutal grandfather gone,
Grama Jackies kids, were able to spent much more time with Grampa lamb's kids.
As grandma jackie was too consumed with her personal drama to teach her daughters the "birds and the beas" her youngest teenaged daughters, unaware of what a period even ment, Brenda (14) and Teresa (15), both became pregnant. And while it was a shame that the righteous sister jackie's teenaged daughters were pregnant, the bigger shame was that the father of one of her daughters children, was the son of "the love of her life"
My mother, had been a track star, an A student, and an all around good girl. In fact, there are only 3 kids that i did not hear stories of encountering my Grampa freddies wrath, My mother.. My aunt Freda, who was born sickly and they thought would die, and Frida, who was just a toddler when all of the drama was going on.
My father was a budding criminal. Unlike his father, he didnt have the keen abulity of not getting caught, and by the time he participated in my conception at 13, he had already been in and out of homes for wayward boys.
My grandma Ruby (my fathers mother) stood adamant that my mother needed to get an abortion. My grandmother, however ashamed she may have been, refused to allow it. In fact, she decided that not only would my 14 year old mother (and her sister) carry their babies to term, but they would keep and raise them. In my defence, she was of a different time, her mother, whose name i have no idea, a Blackfoot Souix woman, married My great grandfather (an african american/filipino man) as a result of getting pregnant, they had 10 kids. My grandmother had her first early, and went on to have 10 kids, so i guess it was time for the next generation of women to take the burden of mother hood on before they were even women.
My mother was forced to drop out of her freshman year of highschool. I am not sure if she rebelled or was kicked out of the home, but eventually her and my aunt wound up living at my Great aunt charlenes house. I was born prematurely on october 5th 1983. My grandpa Lamb regailed in the birth of his first grandbaby, he said i was going to be a fighter because i came out with my fist clinched. Grampa Freddy wanted nothing to do with
"THAT MAN'S Grandchild"(this was told to me second hand by an aunt, grampa freddy never told me of any ill feelings towards me) I was never told how Grandma Ruby reacted. But, many years later, when grandma jackie herself told me of my birth, her response was that i was the ugliest baby she had ever seen, and i was covered in shit"
(i had a bowel movement in utero)
My cousin Royce, son of Teresa, was born a month later.
