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Since there seems to be a lull here, and an opening, I will continue my story of Uncle Oscar, begun at post #129...

Now on to Uncle Oscars love life...Oscar, was the baby of the 12 children born to great grammie...and of course he was spoiled, by all his siblings...oddly enough, Uncle Oscar, is the only one of the 12 kids who never got married...But he had his lifelong girlfriend, Marion...

I dont know when he met Marion, what their situations were at the time, and what all was involved...I just know that at least by 1945 Oscar and Marion were an 'item'...

By the time I remember meeting Marion I was a little kid in the 1950s, when we would see her on our trips back to New Jersey...Uncle Oscar, never having married, still lived at home with Great Grammie in the great big home, where all the kids were raised...Great grammie had outlived two husbands who had lived in the house, and all the other kids had moved out, when they got married...so only Oscar and greatgrammie still lived in the big house...

As great grammie aged, all of her daughters took turns coming down to the big house, cooking and cleaning...Oscar worked, paid the bills, and help care for greatgrammie...

When we went back to New Jersey for a vacation, we always stayed at the big house with Oscar and greatgrammie, because it was a big, big house, with lots of room for visitors....

And whenever we were there(which was every 3yrs) Marion would come down and see us...it was like she was one of the family...

But the thing about Marion, is that she was married to someone else, not Oscar..and she had three children, who also would come down to the big house, and me and my brother would play with them, just as if they were one of our cousins...

In this little town, there were really only two main places that most men worked..either at the Paper mill, or the Chicken Factory...those were the two main industries...Uncle Oscar worked at the Chicken Factory...

Marions husband, seems to have been a rich guy, at least by our standards...I believe he was a lawyer, who had also inherited a good deal of money from his parents...

I have never been able to figure this out...why would Marion have my Uncle Oscar as her boyfriend, when she already had a husband and three children...by all accounts, her husband was madly in love with her, bought her everything she wanted, and indeed provided her with a luxury life compared to what Oscar had to offer...Oscar was not even a particularly good looking fella...

When people live in a small town, everyone knows everyone elses business...and I do know for a fact, that most everyone in town, who knew Oscar and Marion and Marions husband, knew of this arrangement...Marions husband had to have know what was going on...

But from those early days in the 40s until all three of them died at various times during the late 1980s, Oscar and Marion remained boyfriend and girlfriend, and Marion and her husband remained married and on good terms..

Now, figure that one out...its most odd to me...

Everyone in our family knew the score, and when Marion came down to the big house, which sometimes was on a daily basis, everyone in the family acted as if she was Oscars wife...sometimes she stayed overnight in the big house, sometimes Marion and Oscar took a few weeks vacation together, and sometimes they fought like cats and dogs, just like a married couple...

As far as I know, Oscar was faithful to Marion all his life...Marions husband was faithful to her all his life...Marion cheated on her husband all the time, but only with Oscar...a very odd Menage a Trois, a situation which the three of them seemed able to live within...

What gets to me, is the length of time this situation endured..it began, and never stopped until they slowly began to die off...

Of course, I am relating this story, only from my angle or view, and stories I have heard, because that is all I know...I never met Marions husband to get his view, and of course neither Marion nor Oscar discussed these things with me...

Anyway, its very strange...

Next installment will tell of Oscars various disappearances...

OUTSTANDING work Oscar!

What a strange story - in fact, were anyone else telling
it, I probably would not believe it. Thanks so much for
finding FR and screwing up the courage to make that first
post when and where ever that might have been.

Back after more lawn efforts. ;-)

While following the lawnmower around the back yard, my thoughts were on Oscar and Marion and all their adventures back in the day.
The remind of characters out of a Larry McMurtry novel kids growing up, falling in love, falling outa love, marrying, divorcing, but still loving and sleeping around in small town America.

The real hero is Marion - any hottie who can keep two men all her life has to had something special going on for her - and I mean really, really special. Or as just occurred to me, could Mr.Marion have been light in the loafers and wanted a wife to protect his lofty standing in the community? We'll never know.

Did any of these people go to church regularly, and if so, what brand did they use?
I wonder what Great Grandma thought about all the carrying on happening around her? Evidently she at least tolerated Marion to let her sleep under her roof.
Could the kids have been Oscar's?

Thanks again for a story that made lawnmowing a pleasure - lost in thought about some tremendously unique people you introduced to me. ;-)

I just learned on breaking news that the AZ fires have merged into one wall of fire raging 50 miles across and having already consumed 250,000 acres.
30,000 evacuated from their homes.
Govenor Hull is pissed - and is blasting all the goofy ideas that the environmentalists/whackjobs have got enacted.

The 'toon legacy continues to grow.

also I think Oscar was not willing to leave his mom
and Marion wanted home of her own
so she married lawyer husband
Love, Palo