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some trouble at the last place they lived and they had to move away in the middle of the night. That’ s how they ended up here. Jim told your mom if she ever tried to get in touch with her parents he would leave her."
Mrs. Newman interrupted, " By that time Jenny was pregnant with you, Sarah Jean. She would have left your dad, but he had her convinced that your grandparents would be ashamed of her and would turn her away."
" We don’ t really know how it happened," Mr. Newman went on. " Something went wrong at a card game Jim was in and he was killed. It was investigated but Jenny would never tell us the whole story.
Soon enough, you were born. You were just like a bright, shiny penny. None of us could take our eyes off of you …
Anyway, soon enough you were born. You were just like a bright, shiny penny. None of us could take our eyes off of you. Martha begged Jenny to call her parents and tell them about you but she wouldn’ t do it. By that time she was so ashamed of what had happened with Jim she just wanted to take care of you by herself."
" We kept to her wishes," Mrs. Newman said. " Jenny gave us a card with her parent’ s address and phone number to use just in case there was ever an emergency. We wanted to call them so many times but we felt it was only right to keep your mom’ s confidence."
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