Bob Weich and leaving the nest

Sandy when to a community collage in Bellville Illinois. I seem to remember that she also spent some time at the University of Missouri. I need to go through some of my old files. She started dating her husband-to-be, Bob Weich, when she was living in O’Fallon. I remember times with Bob, but what I remember most is that, when Bob dropped Sandy off at home, they would sit in the car in front of the house. Of course, my mother was watching. When Sandy arrived in the door and the car pulled away, my mother would slap Sandy repeatedly and say nasty things about what they were doing in the car. I remember repeated events of this kind, they woke me, and were tramatic, which is why they stand out in my memory. Well, actually, I also remember my mother repeatedly slapping my father too, and Sandy gathering me up with Scott to move us to another part of the house so that we did not witness what was happening. Except for the last big fight between my mother and father, when we saw it all from the next room (we couldn’t escape it).

Here you see Sandy alive and happy. She didn’t take to heart the behaviour of my mother, but I think she never forgot it either. They fought constantly through her entire life, but it did not weaken her. In fact, my mother’s strength, which she used and abused, made all of her children strong.

Here you see Bobby, what to say. Bored again. And Bob Weich; this is a very typical face for Bob Weich. I saw it over and over again through the coming years.