My Life. Jennifer Rebecca Bradley

on the right and one on the left—because I couldn’t sit up. The next time that I was on the floor crying, my mom asked, “What happened, Holly?” She picked me up, and I sat with a handprint on my face Holly gave me. Then he had tricycle a work in yard a left accident behind dad truck and run over it. One day a feel in dirt and had thrones in it fall in and could get out and had no shoe on Holly didn’t wanted help. My mom was cooking, and she heard me crying. She told Holly to help her sister out. Then I got even with Holly for not helping me out. I said something that made her so mad she didn’t notice I put a thumbtack on the steps. She stopped crying and ran after me. She was so mad and ran into the bathroom where my mother was. Then my dad and mom later got divorced in 1978.

      Mother

      It was a sad time for both of us, but two years later, we got married again. I didn’t know why or what happened.

      Jennifer

      Holly was eight, and I was five years old. I was too little to understand what happened between my mother and dad. But they later again and happened again and were try to figure me and Holly what happened. We were still babies and trying to have a happy childhood.

      Divorced

      Mother

      He and I later divorced in 1978. It was sad time for us both of, of us but 2 years later, we got married again but a year later divorced again. Then thirty-three years later, we moved back to Safford from Germany. Your dad asked me to marry him for the third time.

      Jennifer

      So my mother left us behind with our dad. We were going to school, and the bus picked us up and brought us home. We had to do housecleaning and take our trick-or-treat in the car. Holly didn’t have the door shut, so her candy fell out of the car; and I had to share my candy with her. One day, my dad took us to Brother Alfred’s house where my aunt Judy lived, and we walked with her kids to school. We had my birthday at my aunt Judy’s and Easter too. We had fun over at our Aunt Judy’s. She would babysit us when dad was working.

      I didn’t know where my mom went after the divorce, and we didn’t know much about her. Not even around the house; no one ever brought her name up. One day, our dog got out of the fence and got run over. We didn’t have money to take her to a veterinary doctor. Dad picked her up and loaded in the truck and took her to a dumpster and shot her. Holly ran in the house, called Aunt Judy, told her what happened and what my dad did. We went one time to a Mexican restaurant and ate there. Then my mom told him no because he had a wife and was married. But then he asked his wife, Molly, for a divorce.

      Mother

      I still told him no, that he and I could be good friends; but I did not want to get married again to anyone. I was single for over five years, and then five years ago was a very sad day for all of us. Your daddy was a good man.

      Jennifer

      But still, I have a question for my mom: why did she not take us after the second divorce?

      My Mom Met Rainer Vogt

      Jennifer

      She met him when she was working. He came one day on a motorcycle. She got tickled from Rainer, and they got married. If she was happy, I didn’t know. In April 15, she gave Rainer a birthday present—a son named Jan Michael Vogt. They lived in an apartment with other people. I never heard from her for a while. She sent two heckles for us to come where she was living in Germany, and we were still in Safford. Dad worked hard. He always came and got us from our aunt Judy. He looked so tired, but he always put on a happy smile. I remember when he took us to a horror movie drive-in that they were showing. I was so scared, so my dad took us back to his brother’s house and went back with my mother to watch the horror show. So dry remember of memories they’re not so good us child. But Dad married Molly; she had already daughters Linda and Laura and grandchildren Tiffany, Robert, Sara, and Christopher. They treated us like family; we stayed with them in their house. Dad said we had a trailer; we all had fun, and everyone got along. I didn’t remember much when my mother left or whether I got a letter from her. But I had a bunch of questions I didn’t get. So I didn’t know when Dad and Molly sold house and got the trailer. Because there are a lot of blanks in my life that no one would understand or get. I had a wonderful childhood in Safford, Arizona, with my dad, and everyone was giggling. So I hope one day, someone can fill me in that no one wanted me to know because I was born different than everyone else. I didn’t understand what was going on. I felt like everyone would treat me so different if I don’t get it and be ashamed of me. The day was coming when my dad was going to take us to the airport to go to Frankfurt. And now it’s going to hurt him to see us leave for Germany. I’m going to miss my dad because we had a special bond.