Experience First Pages
GROWING UP IN WHY NOT, MISSISSIPPI, AND STRUGGLING TO KEEP HER DYING MOTHER ALIVE AT THE TENDER AGE OF 8. THE STRUGGLES OF GROWING UP WITH A RICH AUNT AND A POOR MADE HELPED HER BECOME STRONG AND DETERMINED TO LIVE AND SUPPORT HER CHILDREN.
MAMA’S BEAUTY WOULD DRAW ANY MAN TO HER! ALTHOUGH MAMA STARTED WITH THE RIGHT INTENTIONS, GETTING MARRIED AND SETTLING DOWN, HOWEVER PTSD AND THE FAMILY FIGHTS ENDED TRAGICALLY WITH HER 2ND HUSBAND’S DEATH. UNFORTUNATELY, MAMA MADE SOME WRONG CHOICES FOR FINANCIAL REASONS. TRAGICALLY AFTER HIS DEATH, THIS SET HER ON A PLIGHT THAT WOULD CAUSE MAMA TO BECOME A ROLLING STONE!
DADDY’S MAYBE BECAME MAMA’S BABY! MAMA BECAME A WOMAN OF THE STREETS FOR FINANCIAL GAIN, MANY OF HER CHILDREN WERE CONCEIVED FROM THESE RENDEVEAUXS. UNFORTUNATELY SOME OF MAMA’S CHILDREN WOULD NEVER KNOW THEIR FATHER. FORTUNATELY, NANCY KING KNEW HER FATHER. HE WAS A KINDHEARTED MAN WHO TOOK MAMA’S CHILDREN TOO. SADLY, NEITHER OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS WOULD LAST. ALCOHOL PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN MAMA’S LIFE AND IT AFFECTED HER ENTIRE LIFE.
THE ABUSE AND REDEMPTION OF HER LAST HUSBAND, MY STEPFATHER! THE PHYSICAL FIGHTS, THE NAME-CALLING, THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT, AND THE INTERACTION WITH MAMA’S CHILDREN WERE A BATTLE OF COURSE. BOTH MAMA AND MY STEPFATHER BEING AN ALCOHOLIC WOULD MAKE IT WORSE. BUT AS THEY GOT OLDER, IT SETTLED DOWN AND THEIR BOND BECAME STRONG
MAMA RULED WITH AN IRON FIST, MUCH LIKE IN THE MOVIE MOMMIE DEAREST. SHE WAS STRONG IN WITH HER WORDS OF WISDOM BUT HER PHYSICAL ABUSE WAS EVEN STRONGER. MAMA’S HOUSE WAS THE PARTYING HOUSE BACK IN THE DAY. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE TIMES HER CHILDREN WENT WITHOUT FOOD, SHE WOULD MAKE IT UP DURING THE HOLIDAYS. THE TEMPERATURE IN MAMA’S HOUSE WENT FROM HOT TO COLD QUICKLY BASED ON MAMA’S ATTITUDE AND SOBERNESS. NEVERTHELESS, MAMA’S WISDOM MADE HER CHILDREN STRONGER BECAUSE OF HER.
Nancy King tells her side of the story of growing up in a household of so many children. Although there was a constant food shortage, there was never a shortage of good times when family and friends came to visit. Creativity is the plight of mama’s children and the parties that took place left the children to make up their own games too.
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