Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother was sickly, very sickly, with cataracts on her eyes, diabetes, heart trouble. Name it, she had it. I played hooky a lot. I wasn't on drugs or nothin', so she didn't care. In junior high, I told my mother I didn't want to go to school anymore. The school was going to throw me out anyway. They said I was taking space. And I couldn't read, I couldn't spell. I still can't read good or spell good...
...Anyway, I met Davey's father, Davey Senior, at 18. I met him in an after- school center, where I played Ping-Pong every day, which I loved. Davey Senior was thrown out of his house for something, so he came to live with my mother and me. And then my grandmother moved in too. My grandmother was a rip; she used to beat up all the kids with a broom. Davey and me lived in the same house, but we didn't do nothin'--would you believe it? I was a virgin till I got married...
...Vinnie's brother and wife. So I took care of their six kids while I was waiting for the court to give me back my own. I took those kids to school. I bathed them. The judge says I got to prove I'm able to be a fit mother. I got jobs. I was a cashier in Pathmark. I worked from 11 at night to 8 in the morning, and then I took care of Vinnie's brother's kids, which meant I got maybe two, three hours' sleep a night. But I proved something to the judge...
...Michael's mother sleeps there...
...again and given over to a foster home. That has happened three times, when Mallory left Michael alone in the house. Mallory was reported for neglect. He lets Eileen stay to make it appear as if the boy has a stable home, even though Mallory calls Eileen a bad mother, who will run off with anybody anytime. He cared for her once, he says, but now he cares only for Michael. He will buy Michael a bike for Christmas...