There are no underage characters in this story. All characters portrayed in this story are over the age of 18-year-old and are consenting adults.
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A product of incest, Susan now knows why she is the way that she is.
Easier to blame myself than to blame someone else, sadly confused, deeply troubled, and blaming my desperate situation on myself, I always wondered why my life is such shit and why I'm the way that I am. Unemployed, homeless, and broke, I'm unable to maintain a relationship with a man. As with most women, a man would be my saving grace by putting a roof over my head and paying for all the other necessities of life, so long as I gave him a warm meal, a clean house, and a hot bed.
Don't get me wrong. I love men and I'm not lesbian but sometimes antagonistic, I'm too combative and too angry in the way that Susan is, my character is my story the Bag Lady and the Retired Marine. I was much like Rachel in my story, Born Beautiful, Rachel's Story, when I was her age, 19-years-old. Being that I can only write what I know, sharing more than a piece of me, my characters are all about me. For sure, I'm not the helplessly submissive, busty, pretty, blue-eyed blonde that most men think that I am on the surface and want. Having survived living on the streets, I'm no Angel. Yet, having lived my life caring for myself and now deeming myself as an equal, I don't want a man who will belittle me and not appreciate me.
Having been held down and back for so long by men, now that I know that I'm able to take care of myself, I resent a man bossing me around and telling me what to do, especially when I have a mind of my own and can make my own decisions for myself. Moreover, in many regards, other than being a city girl instead of a country girl, especially in physical appearance and abilities, I'm a modern day version of Elly Mae Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies fame. Feeling that I'm just as good if not better than any man, I'm smarter than most of the men who've been attracted to me and who I've ended up dating.
I'm not sure what dating a dumber man and a dumber man being attracted to me says about me and about them but it suggests enough for me to question why I don't have a man in my life. Maybe if I played more the role of the cutesy dimwitted, big breasted blonde, I'd have men fawning all over me but, having more self-respect than that, I don't and I won't. I don't want that type of shallow man who'd fall for me just because I'm blonde, busty, and beautiful. I'd rather have a man who appreciates me for the woman that I am inside instead of only seeing me from the outside.
As does everything else, I suspect my personal problems with men all stem from growing up without a father, from not having much of a relationship with my mother, and from being alienated from my brothers. I suspect my personal problems with men all stem from being raped not once but numerous times, first by my uncle, then by my cousins, then by my brothers, and last by my mother's boyfriends. I probably would have had a better life had I been left on a doorstep and raised as an orphan. It would have been nice if a rich family had adopted me and given me a privileged life of excesses. It would have been nice to have grown up in a loving family instead of in a dysfunctional one. It would have been nice, an understatement, not to have been incestuously abused and sexually used in my life over and again.
When I do have any kind of relationship with my mother, it's always a love/hate relationship. Always butting heads with what each of us wants getting in the way, instead of one relenting to the will of the other, we're always at one another. Every conversation turns into a confrontation and an argument. Just by the look on her face, as if my physical presence is her constant reminder that I'm the accidental and frightful product of her giving birth to me in an incestuous relationship, she more hates me than loves me.
Truth be told, I never got along with my mother. We were never close in the way that mothers and daughters should be with a mother buying her daughter pretty dresses and doing her hair and a daughter asking her mother questions and sharing secrets. When growing up, I never even felt comfortable enough to dress up in my mother's clothes. Not wanting to emulate her, I didn't want to dress in the way my mother dressed with much of her body exposed. In the way that I perceived her, cold, distant, selfish, and self-centered, I didn't want to be anything like my mother and now, the self-righteous one, here I am alone while she's living with yet another man.
Always too sparkly in her low cut tops and too short skirts, and always too phony in her bubbly personality, especially whenever men were around, there was no room in my mother's mirror than that of her own self image. She was always acting for the sake of men's sexual attention. With her shine overpowering me, her bright light only glowed enough to encompass herself. When she looked at herself in the mirror, she never saw me and/or acknowledged my presence standing there in the background watching her get dressed to go out yet again. She was always going out on a date with yet another man. There was always some party with a man taking her there and another man bringing her home. Too popular, she had so many boyfriends and too many boyfriends to count.
When I lived with her before I was married, we argued every day. An understatement, she liked men better than she did me. Her life was all about men and she loved my ex-husband which now makes me wonder if they ever had sex. If she had sex with her own sons, why wouldn't she have sex with her son-in-law?