AN ERA BEGAN
Once upon a time, long ago, a teenage girl was fast asleep.  A captive in her own home, she had grown up fatherless, the pawn of a rather dingy mother and her overly ambitious gigolo. In many ways she was an experiment in genetics and eugenics.  The previous generation was having problems conceiving and bearing children who could survive the birth process along with their mothers.  The men in the family waited rather late to either marry or conceive children to the point where there were none. Her uncle arranged a marriage between her father and her ...   more »