Disappointments

Carmen called me to say that her grandmother died and that the funeral would be Friday. She wasn’t going to be able to come to my birthday gathering because all her grandmother’s family would be coming to stay at her house. Carmen lives with her “Dad” in his mother’s house. I’m assuming that since the family members were going to stay in her house that it was her “Dad’s” mother that died. When we were up there on Feb. 1 she had been talking about her grandmother being in the nursing home.

I put “dad” in quotations because the man, Dave Kxxxx isn’t Carmen’s biological father. He married her mother when she was about 3 years old. She says that he adopted her soon after. But when her mother divorced him, he wasn’t allowed to have anything to do with her. Eventually, her mother was declared unfit, and she went into the foster care system. She says a couple with the last name Hxxx adopted her when she was only months from her 18th birthday. She was going by Carmen Hxxx when she married Stewart.