Jerome Howard
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A Fish out of Water
A Fish out of Water A fish out of water, can I get any more cliché than that? I am a 64-year-old man, who was born from a fifty-year-old man and a forty-year-old woman. My siblings are 17, 18 and 19 years older than me. Only Ida (19 years older than me and my rock or maybe I am hers) is still with us, who is six months older than my only surviving Auntie, who was the baby of 11 children my grandmother on my mother’s side had. So, my mother, was the oldest of 11 and the first to leave her home town of Littleton, NC at 18 years old and venture out to the Big Apple. She was born in 1914. My dad was born in 1904, somewhere in Ohio, to a beautiful white, blue eyed, blond woman and a black man who she married pre-1900’s. That wasn’t even legal in America at that time.
By Jerome Howard5 years ago in Wander