My children know a little about my years of growing up, but few people have a real knowledge of the struggles my mom had to deal with after her and dad broke up and went separate ways in 1949. My older sisters would have a different perspective of events after mom was on her own.They had known a life of dad being at home providing for his family most of their life. The younger kids had a much different view of the events in mom's life with no dad to help provide income. We had to deal with life in a totally foreign world, a world of being alone... The beginning of this transcript should probably start with my sisters, all five of them came along before I did. Their memories of our childhoods were more exact because they were around longer than we were, they were born earlier. They are in order of birth: Elouise, Mildred, Earlene, Shirley, and Barbara. I would be the only boy to survive birth and the youngest child born. My memories though would be the ones to write our story, because I would be the last one standing to make an attempt at writing something that made sense. I am not sure this transcript does that but I am trying.