Left with the pack

This next part is hard to sugar coat and even harder to not sound judgemental. So I will stick with the facts. After six weeks of care and recuperation, Lydia decided that she was not ready to be a mother. She was probably right. So she packed up her things and moved to the Bay Area to start her new life. My new life was left in the care of her mother. Who would become my mother. This was not an unprecedented move though. Her sister, Carmen, got pregnant when she was 15 and gave her first child to her mother to raise too. His name was Donny. He was 8 years my senior and although he was my cousin he would become a kinda-sorta brother. So at first, it was my Grandmother, Carmen, Donny and his little sister Claudia and me in the apartment.

Before you judge too harshly, puppies are weaned at 6 weeks too. And besides she really was not ready to be a mother - single or not. So, although her motives were selfish - it likely saved my life so another oddly good move on Lydia's part.