Best Family Story

[Sundae]

I've told this story before, but it's worth repeating.
No details because it's recent - within the last 50 years anyway.

A male member of my family got a 15yo girl pregnant. He wasn't much older himself. But she was the daughter of a prostitute and a Chinese sailor. She was hidden in the back room of the family house until her 16th birthday, when she was smuggled out to marry said family member, all swaddled up to prevent her condition being known.

They're still married, I've met them a couple of times and she's a smart, funny and successful woman and a grandmother now.

And another member of my family spent part of WWII "in the glass house." He was a batman who robbed the officer he was serving in order to get home to his girl. He was caught and imprisoned but was allowed to marry when said lady found herself up the stick.

These are probably commonplace stories in many families, but until seven years ago was led to believe I was the only black sheep in the family because I'd gone and got divorced. Grandad's 80th birthday party was a real eye-opener I can tell you!