Ozzie also loves all of his grandparents as they each have so much love to offer him. At this point of time, he has five grandmothers and one grandfather. He has won them all over, including Melvin. My father is a changed man thanks to Ozzie. It was Ozzie that got us back together as a family because he wanted to meet his Poppa, and he appreciates peace in his family. I also coerced Kit into traveling with us as I didn’t want to face Melvin alone if the situation wasn’t a good one. Surprisingly, Genna, his wife had laid the law down on the line for his behaviors before we even arrived.”

“Oh, how so?” Tina asked.

Bette giggled. “When Ozzie found out that I had a father and a step mom, he wanted to meet them and eventually wore me down. I think it was because it was he wanted a sense of his new family. He didn’t have a good beginning with his own life as he was born to a teenage mom who was raped by an uncle and then thrown out of her home. She eventually took her own life with a drug overdose. She left behind a journal of her life to explain things to Ozzie when he was old enough to know. I have it in my closet for him when he’s older.

After she passed, he was then taken care of by a homeless woman who found him in the dilapidated old house where his mom stayed. The woman had been a teacher, then retired and hit hard times. He had his papers with him along with the journal when she found him and the woman, Rose, continued to write in it about his life with her. From reading the journal, they were together for a while.

Eventually, she passed away and consequently, he was then on the streets alone. Within the year, we came together when I was mugged. He was my hero when he retrieved my purse back from the neighborhood hoodlum. And, the rest, they say is history…”

“It’s amazing that his mom had enough sense to keep a journal about him and their life together and then that Rose continued it. Has he seen it?”