Ina said that she was forced to get married when she was a teenager, by her father. She was able to get divorced from that marriage, and later met and married the man that she loved for the rest of her life, and they had a son together. Ina lived in Texas, and her son helped her become a member of this forum.
When she got her first iPad, she had NO clue how to set it up and use it, and I messaged her to help her with the iPad. It progressed to phone calls, and then a visit to me (in Alabama) after her husband passed away.
I am not sure how her parents were able to get her married at such a young age, but they must have been able to sign paperwork for her to do that, and she did not know that she had any way to refuse what her parents told her to do. Even so, she dearly loved her son from that first marriage , and was broken-hearted when he passed away at a young age.
She lived through a lot in her life, and I was glad to be her friend.
This is Ina, modeling the crocheted shawl that I made her for Christmas before she passed away.
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