Summary: As I mentioned in an earlier episode, my parents divorced when I was 9. My dad remarried later that year, in December I think. Sometime after my parents divorced and before the next school year started, my dad moved us into a rent house in a small town. It was the town that my soon to be step-mom and her two kids lived. <br> <br> I was going into 4th grade, my step-brother would be in 5th grade, my brother would be in 6th grade, and my step-sister would be a senior. Once my step-sister graduated high school she moved off to college and we only saw her occasionally. So for the most part, our home was just the three of us boys, each one grade apart. <br> <br> During the time of that first school year when my dad and stepmom had not yet married, we were instructed to go to her house immediately after school. She lived right across the street from the school so this made sense. We would hang out with my soon to be step siblings and other neighborhood kids. Our parents would arrive home from work a couple of hours later and we’d have dinner. Eventually we’d go back to our house for the night.<br> <br> This worked well and I didn’t mind not going home after school. There wasn’t much to do there anyway. But as every kid knows, between the time school starts and our favorite holiday, Christmas, sits one of the tastiest days of the year, Halloween. That year Halloween was great. I felt like I had scored the mother lode of candy. The only problem was, my dad made me keep it at our house, and we were specifically told not to go there after school. This created a problem for me. Read More...
