It was one of those situations that happens rather spontaneously. ELS worked in the plants there and maybe we could make it there a little better. It was decided that we would move to Michigan. That was February of 1978. It was the last Tuesday in the month. Happy Days came on that night. At any rate as we were settling in, Somebody made the announcement that she had to go back to Chicago to finalize things there. There we were in Michigan with ELS, her 3 oldest children and my baby; she took her 5-month with her. At some point, ELS went to get some type of assistance for the children. This put protective services in things. They discussed taking her children out of that house. Boy, was I calling back to Chi-town to give her the information. Then, although I was young, they were going to let me be the guardian. I called that back too. So, about May, when I was almost their guardian, she made it back. When she made it back, she got to keep her kids and of course I had mine. And that is how, as a minor, I became head of my own household.
Nevertheless, we began to settle in our day-to-day routines. I enrolled myself into school. And there I met like-minded constituents. Think about it, you always meet like-minded people at school. There are those who make every class and those that don’t. I was of the latter. It was where I began my experimentation with marijuana. And although I was a teenager, I don’t recall going into a store where I could not buy liquor. Sometimes I went to school and sometimes I didn’t. That’s a sad statement for any student to make. I wish I had fully understood the choice I was making. Still, now it was time for me to find my own place. I could not be controlled anymore. End of control. End of her fun. Now I leave. About 2 years of that and I decided to move back to Chicago (I had to go get FatAss,
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