Being born into a family with seven children in the forties, the odds of being rich were very slim. Rich wasn't what I wanted, it was love. Instead, I was abandoned. Then put into the foster system for awhile. That turned into a nightmare for my siblings and I. Love was still out of reach. Then my Dad rescued two brothers and I. Dad had remarried and we thought we were fi nally going to be a family. I have always thought of us as rubber bands. We were always being pulled one way and then another. Pulling wasn't all our Dad did. In the end, I had to make my escape!! LOVE WAS NEVER IN REACH!!!