Stuck in a Lifetime Movie - part 3

Although I know better, every bone in my body wants to believe this Lifetime movie has a happy ending. After all, these two little boys, bereft of their mother deserve a happy ending. And what about Edna?

Downtown

After her husband left, she was eventually evicted from the house, abandoned by the father of her baby, and living on the streets. She was homeless, cold and fending for herself, depending on the kindness of strangers for food. Just before the baby was born she was walking downtown, hungry and exhausted, and fainted right there on the pavement. A kindly negro man was passing by named George Piper. After a brief hesitation, he picked her up and took her home with him.  He was a single working man with a good heart and he called the neighborhood midwife to come take care of her.  Edna was soon delivered of a surprisingly healthy baby boy, and in honor of the man who rescued her, she named him George. After the baby came, the older George took a shine to this beautiful white woman and Edna stayed on with him, keeping his house and before too long sharing his bed. Although they never married, I think she must have ended up falling in love with George. I like to think so. Grampy said she called George "pet". Surely you are in love with a fella that you nickname "Pet". He treated her with kindness and that was more than she'd ever had. More children followed and it would be years and years before they were to meet their half brothers, Arthur and Willie.

She named the baby George.

Grampy doesn't remember how or when his mother passed away. he insists she was a woman of loose morals to the end. We must remember that after his dad moved him out west, he never again grew up with his mother in his life, and only knew what his father told him about her. He didn't see her again till well after he became an adult, and then rarely. I sincerely doubt Arthur, Sr. would have had anything nice to say about Edna. And Grampy is old school. He hails from a time when a man could be described as a womanizer and a pillar of society in the same sentence. No one expected a man to be faithful to his wife...a "slip" now and then was slyly winked at and quickly overlooked. The women they were unfaithful with, well...shame on them, and even one indiscretion left them with a loose and ruined reputation in an unforgiving era of society.

Such were the times that Grampy grew up in.

(stay tuned for part 4)