My Mama and the father married during WWII. Mama dropped out of school, married him and he went off to the war. This was a familiar scenario at that time She was 15, he was 19. Mama stayed with her parents and worked at the cotton mill with them.
When he came home, he decided he would stay in the Navy. They went to Norfolk, Va. When she was 19, she became pregnant with me. As all good southern girls did, she went home to have her baby - me.
And so, I was blessed to be born in Rome, Ga. Then, Mama and I went back to Norfolk.
I don't remember anything about that time, of course.
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