1916
Katherine was sitting at a table , her wedding ring on her hand still after what he had done .
He had done it before but this time she knew . Was it like he didn't love her ?
She sat down with the letter the women he had been sleeping with wrote to him and the one he wrote to her .
Katherine had her cross clenched in her fist so tight her knuckles turned white .
"Mamma .... Don't do it " her daughter said as Katherine held the letters in her hand .
"Your not the boss of me missy ... Leave me alone " Katherine said and grabbed the knife that was on the table and tore both letters open .
"Mamma ... Come play with me " Laura-Lynn said shaking her
"Laura-Lynn I've told you you ain't the boss of me now scat before I whoop that behind of yours!" Katherine shouted to her daughter .
Laura-Lynn ran off .
Katherine opened the letter her husbands mistress had written him .
Dear James ,
Come back soon my love , for Ive missed you and all ... Leave her be ! You told me you would and when will you ! I've been waiting for years ! Almost 6 to be exact ... Come to me soon darling ...
You know where I live and if your ever in town just holler for me ... My legs are always open .
I've recently been drugging my husband ... I've got almost three thousand dollars so we can run off to New York and you and I can be rich and famous and leave the Lynn-Laura and Kathy to the dust !
Come home soon baby ,
Love ,
Paige J. Anderson
Katherine shed a tear as she discovered they had been seeing each other for six years .... When six years ago her daddy died and so did her mamma .
Katherine clenched her cross even tighter and prayed to the lord for strength not to rip that women's hair out . She opened her husbands letter to his mistress .
My Paige ,
I'll be back soon honey , I've just gotta get this damn divorce through .... You know how it is in Santa Fe ... You stay married till someone dies .... And if I kill Katherine who would take care of Laura-Lynn ? Nobody ? Well maybe that stupid painter brother of mine Jack .
I do know where you live and I'll be there soon .... I can't wait to get in between those pretty legs of yours my darling .
I'm glad you've got almost all the money ... I sold my wedding ring to Katherine... I told her that I lost it at work .... Jokes on her ain't it sugar ?
I'm making this short ... I'll see you in two weeks and we'll be off ... Got a judge to sign the papers already... Hell Katherine and I ain't together no more and she don't even know it !
Loving ,
James R. Kelly
Not only was Katherine heartbroken but she was now a divorce single mother in Santa Fe , New Mexico in 1916.
Mothers aren't supposed to be alone . Women aren't supposed to be alone yet here she is . Alone with her little girl and nobody else .
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"Uncle Jack ! Uncle Jack ! Come quick ! Mamma -" Laura-Lynn said running to jacks auto store he owned , he worked on cars when he wasn't painting .
"Woah , slow your roll sugar-bee ... What's going on ?" Jack asked her wiping the grease off his hands .
"Mamma! Mamma found some letters from daddy and that lady .... Mamma is going crazy .... Now , uncle jack don't tell her I know but daddy got Judge Harris to sign some papers and well ... Mamma ain't my daddy's wife anymore " Laura-Lynn told Jack tugging on his shirt "we gotta go to Mamma ... Please uncle jack ! Your the only person she'd listen to "
"Okay ... Let's go sweet pea " Jack said and the two ran down the street to her home .
"Laura-Lynn... Stay out here while I talk to your Mamma real quick ... Hers a dollar incase the ice cream man comes " Jack said and walked in the door .
He saw photos shredded all over . And he followed the sounds of a weeping women to Katherine's room where she was was sitting in the floor with a tear stained face and her wedding dress getting cut up by her knife .
"Kath -" Jack began .
"He left me ! He left me for some one else ! He left me with my baby .... I can't take care of her alone ! Jack I had her at 14.... I never went to high school ... I can't do anything now " she cried and ripped the dress even more .
Jack took the knife out of her hands and picked her up . "Now , you listen to me and you listen good ... I ain't like my scummy brother ... And I have a niece out there who needs a father figure .... I'm gonna take care of both of y'all .... That's the way the lord would want it and I'm a holy man Katherine " Jack said hugging her .
"I can never show my face in town again " she cried harder .
"Wherever you go I'm right there by your side " Jack told her stroking her hair .
"For sure ?"
"For sure" Jack said . Katherine looked up in his deep blue eyes and kissed him .
"Kath -"
"I'm a divorced women now ... I ain't belonging to now James Kelly no more ... My heart belongs to Jack Kelly and Jack Kelly only " she said kissing him some more .
"That's fine by me baby.... Cause you and Laura-Lynn are the only girls in my life from now and forever " he said and kissed her again .
They went out to fetch Laura-Lynn and told her they were moving out to California.
I made this while listening to ;
Say no to this
You're going back to jail
And The World will remember us .
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