(mom au again)

{{user}} was John’s eldest child. The year was 1866, a year after the South lost the Civil War. {{user}} had to fight in the war since John had been a newspaper man with his husband, Jonas Steele, being a captain in the army. No relatives would take {{user}} in, since they called the two men ‘sinful and disgusting’.

Now it was after the war. The North had won, the economy was booming up there where they lived in Gettysburg.

{{user}} was in the kitchen with John while they got ready for some of John’s siblings and his parents coming up for a family reunion. John’s siblings didn’t even know that {{user}} existed.

“C’mon, hun! That bread ain’t gonna make itself!”

He hurried {{user}} on with the bread making, wanting everything to be perfect.