White Bread and Mayonnaise

By Lula Phine

A baby boy was born during the Depression Era in the South to German-born parents. He was the youngest of five children, arriving into the world when his parents were in their forties. The boy grew up smart and adventurous. His parents strict ways of raising him did not inhibit his creativity and desire for adventure. With pride and compassion, he did things his way.

When the boy becomes a man, he joined the US Marines. He showed a strong skill in leadership. He survived Korea after many near-death encounters. His tour of duty ended, and he went home a different person. Painful memories were stored in his mind. He still strove for a normal life. When he found the woman he would spend the rest of his life with, he was the happiest. But the memories of war haunted him. He turns more and more to alcohol, alienating his family and losing his wife to divorce.

He felt defeated. However, out of the mans greatest pain, came his joy. The joy was rediscovering the pure happiness of reuniting with family. Because of his selflessness, he made up for his flaws by building a close relationship with his grandson, earning his love and respect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504384346

Lula Phine

Lula Phine lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is married, has two grown children, a son-in- law, and one grandchild.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-8419-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8434-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8420-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017910842

Balboa Press rev. date: 08/12/2017

To my late grandmothers who continue to inspire me

A young housewife takes a jar of mayonnaise from the shelf at her neighborhood grocery store. She places the jar in the grocery cart beside a loaf of white bread, freshly ground coffee, baloney, ground beef wrapped in white butcher paper, a dozen eggs, and a bottle of ketchup. She pays for her items and watches as they are bagged into two brown paper sacks. The sacker hands the young housewife the eggs so they will not get broken. He then carries the rest of her groceries to her car, placing them carefully into the trunk of her automobile.

The baby boy was born in the early 1930s in a small wooden house on the corner of a dirt road in a small farming town in the American South. Most people considered his parents too old to have a baby. They were both in their forties and had four other children. The parents of the baby boy had a beautiful wedding picture of themselves hanging in their front room. No one asked about their wedding, so they never thought to talk about it. Mom and Pop were German and Catholic. Because the two oldest sons had married non-Catholics, they had to be married in the sacristy of the church instead of at the altar. When the baby boy was born, all the siblings were grown and had children, except for one sister. Two siblings with their spouses and children lived on the same dirt road within a fourth of a mile from each other and from Mom and Pop. There were thirteen nieces and nephews for the baby boy to already be an uncle to.

The sister closest in age to the baby boy was eight years old when he was born. Because the belief system of the time was that children were to be seen and not heard, the eight-year-old sister did not even know her mom was going to have a baby. She had been sent to her cousin’s house for a month. Mom’s sister was married to a dairy farmer. The dairy farmer uncle delivered milk in the mornings, so he drove the two girls to parochial school. In the afternoon, they walked home to the dairy farm. One day at school, a nun told the sister she had a new baby brother at home.

The baby boy’s sister could not wait for school to be over that Friday when she got the news from Sister. She squirmed during morning mass. In the afternoon, when it was time for the sacrament of Confession and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, she could