The House In The Woods
According to my maternal aunt Sally, my parents had to get married. My mother was just seventeen, and my father was almost twenty-one when she discovered she was pregnant with me. That meant my mother was a minor, and my grandfather was going to file criminal charges if my father didn’t marry his daughter. He complied, and the whole deal was swept under the carpet or hidden in the closet as they tried to live a normal life. Actually, that wasn’t too difficult because my father had taken a...