[newgeezer]

What if the mother and father had married, albeit young, and stayed married to each other? Things might've worked out a bit differently.

Or, what if Evelyn's maternal grandparents had adopted her (practially, if not legally)? When it's an option, I've seen it work out VERY well in my wife's extended family.

[Tired of Taxes]

Agreed. I know of many grandparents who raised grandchildren successfully. Two-grandparent households - and somehow widowed grandmothers, too - were able to do so very well somehow. ;-)

[memories_of_evelyn]

Or, what if Evelyn's maternal grandparents had adopted her (practially, if not legally)?



Sorry, but that's the biggest joke I've heard all day! LOL. Have you SEEN Noel's mother (Evelyn's maternal grandmother)? She's nuttier than a fruitcake. She stumbles around town drunk and/or high (or acting like it) half the time. Not exactly a stable woman. Noel's father is dead, and he was never married to her mother in the first place.