It doesn’t seem fair to leave you hanging with John and Wanda’s story, but Mother didn’t learn any more for more than twenty years. It came by way of John’s second wife, Cathy, who had no particular reason to lie. John never mentioned any of this. John got out of the army after the war but stayed in the Army Reserves for twenty-five years. He went to law school on the GI Bill, but decided to teach instead. He later became a principal and married a teacher. They both taught the children of migrant workers dividing their year between South Texas and California. When they were teaching in California, a young man approached him, telling him he was one of twins and had been born a Holdaway, but was told his father was killed in the war before his birth. His mother married an old boyfriend who had adopted the babies, raising them as his own. At the boys insistence, the two couples met. The sister had married young and he didn’t meet her. It looked like the father-in-law engineered the whole story to break up the young marriage. He and his wife were long-dead, so they all let it drop, not affecting their long marriages. Wondering if it could possibly be true, I searched and found the birth and death records by the adopted name. Indeed, there was a man by the right name, born in the right time period born to Wanda. She did have a marriage recorded shortly after the boy’s birth. Unfortunately, John and Cathy never had children.
people can be so selfish – still breathing
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Men!
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grrrr
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What an amazing, tragic story. How sad that interfering parents kept John from knowing his own children. It does seem almost too strange to be true. Go figure. No fiction like real life.
Laura Mae’s house….provided a setting for so many rich stories. Thanks for sharing them. 💛 💙 💜
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You are welcome. May do a few more.
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I agree with Olga. So unbelievable that maybe it would not even make it to a movie!
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It sounds too contrived.
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Yes, exactly, Linda! You have the best stories at hands.
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It’s good sometimes to have a good memory.
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LOL… it sure is!!!
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That was weird. Some parents can really make a mess of things. That girl’s father selfishly deprived a man of his children. How terrible. He probably felt very righteous about it, the idiot.. — Suzanne
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Yes, and John was a fine man. He helped so many children over his lifetime.
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That’s heart breaking.
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Yes it was. Did you see update?
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I did. And thank you for sharing that with us.
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Thanks
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That one of those stories that if you read it in a book you think it is unbelievable
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I didn’t hear it till l was grown. Mother didn’t want to talk about it because she thought people would think it was too weird to be true.
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