Chapter 176 Overnight Doorman

Aunt Mary, whose full name was Mary Jenkers, was a close friend of my mother’s from her younger days. Although they did not live in the same city as adults, they stayed in touch. When my mother took me back to her hometown in Lorell to visit relatives, we often visited Mary. She was a very beautiful woman, and it seemed like beautiful women often had challenging fates. Mary's life was just like that. As a teenager, she fell in love with a senior from her school and got pregnant early. Being an unmarried teenage mother was particularly unacceptable thirty years ago, especially in a small town. Moreover, the boy she loved was irresponsible. In order to have her child, Mary dropped out of school early. After breaking ties with her parents, she gave birth to her daughter alone. Later, to support her child, she never considered marriage again. I used to think she would never marry, but surprisingly, she decided to get married in her fifties or sixties. I nodded at my mother and said, "Go