Mom was not only heartbroken but also destitute. Little money, not able to work, few friends in Denver, she returned to Daddy, beseeching rides from strangers. One can imagine the scene as she ambled the final quarter mile drive to the farmhouse, rounded belly announcing her condition well before words were to be exchanged.
Mom confessed, if such is the appropriate term in disclosing the obvious. Not revealed... the ethnicity of the father.
So one can imagine... traumatic episode one... estranged housewife returns expecting child. And then traumatic episode two... housewife bears a child of color... her infidelity never to be veiled.
It was then that I began to better understand Daddy’s standoffishness, the many hours on the range, including overnight stays in the high country during th
