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Penny Lawson |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 379 Words, 2,123 Characters |
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Wilma "Penny" Lawson says her life "could be a ghost story or a fairy tale." Her stepmother did not like her, her stepsister taunted her, and Lawson did not feel welcome in her home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At 14 she married a GI she'd met in town.
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...Letters from Doyle were few. "It was my salvation, being with the other girls," she says. "It was truly my family, the first real family I'd ever had."
After Doyle came home, she was discharged. "I grew up a lot while he was gone," she says. "I should have been in high school, going to proms ... " They decided to keep their vows. They are still together sixty years later.--P.S.
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