Abandonment
Who abandoned whom? Is the one who leaves, the same as the one who abandons? Or was the one who left, instead, abandoned by others, already in place, and leaving was the only solution left to keep their sanity? “When one is abandoned, one is left alone. This can happen through physical absence as well as physical presence. In fact to be abandoned by someone who is physically present is much more crazymaking.” – John Bradshaw Horace Allen "Al" Kerns , 27 years old, 1930. Al Kerns married Jessie Mae Longan sometime in January 1926, in Oklahoma. He was 23 years old and she was 18 years old, though she lied about her age on the marriage certificate and marked that she was 21 or older. Jessie Mae Longan , sometime before 1927. They had one child, Dovie Sue Kerns , born on 19 January 1927 in Skiatook, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. She went by the name Sue. Dovie Sue Kerns , age 3, 1930. Tulsa County, Oklahoma I had known that Jessie was married 3 times. Nobody ever talke...