I was between my junior and senior year in high school. I had taken a summer job with Kirby Vacuum Cleaner as a telephone solicitor. I was a really pretty little girl. There was this salesman who worked for Kirby who was 32 years old. We started fooling around and I got pregnant.
I will never forget when my mom took me to the doctor. At first he thought that I had an ovarian cyst, and he was going to schedule me for surgery. Then he called us back into his office and said that I was pregnant. I actually fainted, for the only time in my life.
Well, this was before abortion was legal. I was stuck. The man who got me pregnant came to my house and talked with my father. My dad gave him a free pass. At 16 years old I was the evil woman. My dad was a cop. How the hell did he give him a free pass?
In any event, I spent my senior year in high school being pregnant, having home schooling and basically feeling miserable. I remember going to the hospital. I remember how physically painful it was and all of the doctors telling me that I was such a small girl and that was why it hurt. I never saw my baby. He was given up for adoption. Later I was contracted by the county and told that my baby was being removed from his adoptive parents because they had been abusive. There is no happy ending to this story.