On Roberta’s twentieth birthday, she went to Sears and Roebuck to buy a new pair of shoes. Roberta sat waiting for the sales clerk when a man named Billy Day asked if she needed help. Billy was eighteen and already a Manager Trainee at Sears. The attraction to this woman was instant, and Billy knew they would be together forever. A few months later, on Christmas Eve, they married. Nine months later, in nineteen fifty-seven, they had their first child. A little girl named Liz. Two months later, Billy transferred to a small Sears store in Duncan, Oklahoma. Billy was the Floor Manager, a promotion on the way to his goal of becoming a*****e manager.
Although being a young parent seemed stressful, Roberta was glad to leave the farm for a new life. Billy worked many hours leaving her at home al
