Suddenly It Dawned On Me

By Dorothy Morris

Dorothy Morris graduated from high school in May 1973 and in September that same year, began teaching at the Salem Basic School. It was her first experience teaching students numbers and letters. She learned a lot during that year that you have to encourage and involve the parents in the child's education. She later went off to college and returned to teach at her former high school where she became Ms. Gordon instead of Dorothy. She stood proudly beside some of her former teachers and seek their guidance whenever possible.

Her parents played an active part in the Jamaican political arena and were strong advocates for the poor and needy. As a result of this, her siblings and she learned how to share and give to the poor and needy. That was her first exposure to social work which became her focus when she migrated to the USA. She continued her studies and graduated from Adelphi University with a Masters in Social Work, and as a Social Worker she has worked with children and families, with the HIV/Aids community, and incarcerated youths with the New York Board of Education. She later worked in alternative high school. These were students who did not graduate from traditional high school and decided to take the GED examination.

This book covered the role that a grandparent played as a parent, a guardian, a protector, and as the book states, a predictor of the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886543148

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Suddenly It Dawned On Me

Dorothy Morris

Copyright © 2023 Dorothy Morris

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 979-8-88654-312-4 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88654-314-8 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

This is a story about two young ladies who were raised by their grandmother. Now Granny, as she was called, had the ability to see things in the future or make predictions about what was to happen. One of her grandchild Lorna was involved with a man who did not work and was abusive. She later left him and migrated to the USA. Here she had an issue with home until she made contact with Mom and Pop. She later met Sonny, an immigration lawyer, whom she married and started a new family. Kerneth and Lorna had three children together—Cassandra, Peter, and Shelly Anne. They have been living with Granny ever since Lorna left Jamaica.

The second grandchild Jodyanne was living with Granny until she met Jonas, a policeman, and she eventually moved in with him. Granny kept on telling her that he was not the one for her. But he was just like her cousin’s boyfriend, Kenneth, except that he worked. He could be abusive verbally and physically. Many people wonder how he graduated from the academy because of his level of education. Well, Jodyanne decided to leave him and went to live with Lorna in the USA. Lorna was now a nurse, married to a rich white man, and had started a new family. Jodyanne had two children but after she left home Jonas took the children to Granny.

Jodyanne arrived at Lorna and Sonny’s home and had an instant attraction to Sonny’s brother Paul. Lorna had given Paul a photo of Jodyanne years before and he had decided that she was going to be his wife, mother of his children, etc. They had a courtship that was sexually frustrating, especially for Jodyanne, who had not had sex in more than six months. After their first encounter, Jodyanne came out pregnant, it was a boy and Paul was happy. They got married, and he filled for her, her children, and Granny. Things could not have been happier for Paul and Jodyanne They went to Jamaica; and according to Sonny, who was an immigration lawyer, the family will be reunited. A friend of Jonas saw them in the airport and decided to play with Jonas’s head by telling him that Jodyanne was at the airport and that she was pregnant and looked better than when she was with him.

Jonas had lost his job, he did not have his car anymore, and basically he was homeless. He had burned all his bridges.

Jodyanne’s issues were her children and Granny, and she had a little fear of Jonas. But underneath all that, she knew that her husband, Paul, would support her all the way,

In the end, Jodyanne had some questions regarding Granny’s gift or whatever of predicting the future. Did Granny have anything to do with it, or did she manipulate the issue so that they will marry rich guys? Granny never liked Jonas. Did she have anything to do with his downfall? She appeared to be very attentive to Jodyanne and Lorna, and can we say that she would have done anything for them?

What would you do if Granny was your granny? Do we have people with such talent, or is it a curse? By the way, did Granny pass down her talent to Kyle?

Chapter 1

I was just nineteen years old, fresh out of college still living at home with my grandmother, when I met this tall dark and handsome guy. He promised me the world, the moon in a package, so convincing that I could not refuse it. It was like a dream come true but for who?

I was not sure that I wanted a relationship with him or that he would want a relationship with me, but I kept on hearing this was not the one for me, and this was coming from the only person I trusted in this world. That was Granny, Mrs. Margaret Cahill-Jones. Here was the ideal man, but when everyone was making much of him, I had doubt but was willing to try. Give it a chance to grow, and see what comes off of, it but Granny said no. All who were aware of the conflict said yes, but my Granny said no. Can you imagine how I felt. Why can’t we agree to give it a try?

I just couldn’t believe what was happening to me.

Was there something wrong with this guy?

Was there something wrong with me?

Why was I doing this because of a little attraction that I felt for him? I could detect that this man does not know the road he had taken, and with only me on the ride with him, there were many bumps.

Baby, watch out!

Was this the real thing? Can it be real, or are there disappointments along the way?

Was there something unnatural going on? There was such a thing as second sight. And I know it existed because I live with someone who could tell the future or was gifted in telling some things that will happen.

Believe me. She was almost, and I repeat, almost correct.

Oh, I will just chalk this up to being in a relationship. Just a plain simple relationship.

No chick or child, I said, but what will you do if the chick or child happened?

Granny said it would happen. Granny knew. You want to bet?

He presented himself with much confidence, a surety too proper. It was if he had to show somebody say something. He was charming to my friends, and he tried his best to be a gentleman to Granny, but she had a frown when he approached Granny and started to say how much he love Jodyanne

In a somewhat strange language or voice, she said, He is not the right one. Something is not right with this young man. Oh, Granny, talk to me. But her words remain the same. He is not the one. I rest my case. Granny said to me one day that I never met her for that chat, but she had always reminded me that he was not the one. Years later, if I had just listened to her or had that chat with Granny, who knows what would have happened or where I would have been? They said that destiny can be delayed but not denied. If I had just listened. Just listened to my Granny.

There was something I have to say. I mean it from the bottom of my heart. When I saw him for the first time, he was not in uniform, and I was impressed. So imagine this time because he was in uniform. I knew that he was a police man. I was always impressed by people in uniform. The second time that my eyes behold him, he was indeed dressed in uniform—a police uniform.

Yes, indeed he was in uniform. For some women, not excluding myself, uniform did something to a man. Any man as far as I am concerned, if the man is ugly—and I mean ugly—he puts on just about any uniform—a jacket and tie—any uniform. then they suddenly change and are seen as men—distinguished men/women. Let me get it right. It’s men or women.

This police uniform did things for this young man that I cannot explain. My head was all over the place when I saw him. He looked good. He was good, but that uniform? Mmm.

Was he for real? My friend who was with me kept on pinching me and whispering in my ears. I was swatting them like you do a fly, but that did not prevent them from asking, Does he have a brother, an uncle, a cousin? What about his father?

His father! I shouted. What are you going to do with the father?

I kept on swatting and saying that I don’t know. I just met him, and what were they talking about. I just met him a few days ago. I didn’t know. I just met him, and on and on, I continued to make sense of the situation. I could not.

I accepted his offer of a drink, and let me say that I did not drink to quench this thirst of a guy, and he knew it. I knew I was lucky but not in the sense that he was taking it, and I thought he should know this. He was the lucky guy and that I knew that he knows this.

No, I assure you that I was just charming and beautiful in a package that I inherited from my ancestors. I was always convinced and made aware