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man she
    started to care for was pushed away. It was safer that way.
    Less than two weeks ago Madison started her new job as a history teacher at a public high school. Everything was going
    perfect for the first time in her life and then Candy swoops in.
    Joshua woke her up at three in the morning crying. A drunk woman was puking in their living room/kitchen/dining
    room/Joshua’s bedroom. Madison went to the aforementioned room with a baseball bat and cursed. Candy was back.
    Candy was back with a vengeance it seemed. Stewart the man she ran off with five years ago never married her. They lived in
    hotels all over the country. Candy loved it. She had pictures and of course magnets from every state except for those in New
    England, Hawaii, and Alaska of course. She hated New England, refused to return to it.
    Everything was going fine until Stewart discovered Candy was not a natural blond. She bleached it. Madison knew of course
    and thought it was obvious. Apparently Stewart hadn't realized her mother's golden locks came from a box. He didn’t realize a
    lot of things like Candy was not her real name and she was not twenty-eight but thirty-nine, which again Madison thought was
    obvious, so he started screwing around. Candy came home one night from a club to find Stewart “Breaking her heart by fucking
    that whore Jennifer from the strip club on their bed of love.” Candy actually used those words to her and the two younger
    children, repeatedly.
    Madison refused to allow her mother’s presence to alter her plans. She demanded that her mother sign the custody papers. She
    refused, saying she missed the kids. She loved them. Then she applied for welfare and was refused. Seems the state of New
    Mexico was no longer willing to give her a free ride. So, Candy inquired about New Hampshire. They were very willing to
    give her funds only because Candy’s mother was a resident and Candy had been claiming residence there for the past five
    years. That surprised Madison.
    Candy wouldn’t listen to reason. She wanted the kids to come with her. She needed them. She cried, threw tantrums and
    threatened Madison with keeping the kids away from her. They were her only chance since Candy didn’t want to work.
    She pointed out to Madison that she was too delicate for such labor. Madison broke down in the end when her Grandmother
    accepted. She was anxious to see her three grandchildren. Candy never brought any child to see her and wouldn’t allow any
    contact. She frequently tried to blackmail her mother with the kids. It never worked. It seemed now Grandma had the upper
    hand and knew it.
    Thank god for that. Two weeks ago the sweet well behaved sister she knew and loved started to disappear. Jill now saw their
    mother as her best friend, her idol. She liked how Candy didn’t work and flirted with men. Madison discovered her sister
    making out with a man in his twenties just before they left. Candy gave the man permission. She also turned a blind eye when
    Jill got drunk with her new buddies. Madison flipped out and chased the man out of the house and threw the drugs out. He
    punched her for her efforts, blackening her cheek.
    This nightmare needed to end soon and her grandmother was about to do it. Grandma put her foot down. She had Candy where
    she wanted her. Candy bragged that her mother was a desperate lonely old woman and would do anything and everything to see
    them. They were going to live like royalty Candy told Jill. Joshua hated Candy and let her know it. He was Madison’s little
    boy as far as everyone else was concerned. Candy didn’t care, Joshua was just a welfare check.
    Grandma threatened to inform the authorities of Candy’s lies. She had no choice. Candy was to bring the two little ones to New
    Hampshire immediately and sign over custody. Madison could come, too. In return they would be given rooms in their
    Grandmother’s large ancestral home that had been turned into a boarding house when their mother was a