daninthelionsden
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It's strange how an event or a series of events can set forth a chain reaction with consequences more damaging than could've ever been foreseen. Don't know offhand when my grandparents married, but I do know they decided to have kids at the beginning years of the Great Depression. They decided to have only two kids, one boy and one girl. The only problem with that was that , though the first kid was a girl, the second kid turned out to be a girl as well. They were so set she should be born male, they even named her before her birth a male name (William Neal). They called her Billie as a child, she despised this.
She was expected to go hunting/fishing with her father as would a son. She had fond memories of this and fancied herself a tomboy even though she had absolutely no mechanical aptitude and was very dainty in her mannerism. But she wanted to be accepted for who she was(his daughter) and not as his substitute son.
This alone set up a situation where rebellion of her role in the family loomed in the future.
She was expected to go hunting/fishing with her father as would a son. She had fond memories of this and fancied herself a tomboy even though she had absolutely no mechanical aptitude and was very dainty in her mannerism. But she wanted to be accepted for who she was(his daughter) and not as his substitute son.
This alone set up a situation where rebellion of her role in the family loomed in the future.