My grandmother's mother was married to Richard Lawson. He was the founder of a newspaper in Northeast Philadelphia. When my grandmother was very young, he left his wife for his secretary. My great-grandmother was left with a daughter and a son with cerebal palsy.
She married another man, whom my grandmother only refers to as 'the old man,' It should be 'the mean old man' because he would get drunk a lot, and it caused my great-grandmother to drink as well. While he was drunk, he would do mean things. An example of this is, once, he went out and bought my grandmother, great-uncle, and 'the old man's' two other children (whom he had with my great-grandmother), brand new clothes. All of them fancy and nice. This was surprising, since they did not get many nice things. So, the old man showed the kids the new clothes, getting them all excited. Then, he took them into a trashcan, and lit them on fire. Great guy, right?
This wasn't the only mean thing the old man did. He also molested my great-uncle. I'm not sure how many times. They were taken away after that. There are more stories that go with that, but that's for later.
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-Wolf
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