It was just a way to take the edge off a rough day.It was just a way to take the edge off a rough day. Her mother was a classic German family matriarch, dominating her life and making her into a very respectable woman. She owed much to her. She had one sister, Janet, just 2 years younger than her who had married when she was 16 and had given birth to twins girls at the age of 17. Then just five weeks ago tragedy struck. It was a rainy night on a well traveled stretch of the L.A. Expressway. Janet and her husband Frank had taken her mother, and the twins to a Disneyland. On the way back, a tractor trailer carrying a load of propane jackknifed just as it was entering a tunnel, the same tunnel that the van carrying Janet and her family were in. The whole thing blew sky high and killed them and twenty-six other people. She had no one to turn to. No friends to lean on, no lover, no boyfriend. |