Vi's friends were enthralled with a fortune teller in Johannesburg.
"Come along with us! She'll tell your fortune!"
Vi was sceptical, but curious.
She went along.
The fortune teller told her "Your name is Violet."
"How do you know that?!" exclaimed Vi.
"I see a little old lady in the corner holding some violets."
(Vi said that was her Aunt Vi)
The fortune teller also told her
"You will marry a man that has been married before."
"That won't happen!" said Vi
"I see a place with little thorn trees. You'll live there for 20 years."
"You will contract a disease that will take you away from your family."
"That will never happen!" responded Vi.
"And, you know.. I married a man who had been married before...
"And I lived in Northern Rhodesia for 20 years...
"And I got TB... I was sent away to a clinic (in South Africa.)
"Doctor Overdorf treated me.
"When I was cured he said to me
"You can go home. And - if I were you, I would fly."
"I did! Eddie (brother) saw me off and Dennis met me at the airport."
"I was so thankful to think my sister (Alice) had been caring for my children."
"Alice brought Glenn and Brenda to the house and left on a family outing.
"I said to Brenda (about 16 months) "I am your Mommy,"
"Who you call your Mommy is my sister."
Brenda said "Go 'way lady!"
'How did that feel to you?" (Judy Bray)
"Like a slap in the face!"
"And Glenn?" (Judy)
"He (about about 3 1/2 years old) stood in the doorway and looked at me..."
""What's the matter?" I said to him."
""Are you really my Mommy?" he said."
"When Alice came back Brenda just wanted her! I said "She can go with you... but tomorrow I will come and fetch her - you tell her I am her mother."
"Glenn was OK to stay with me."
"In the morning I went and fetched Brenda and took her home. Alice must have told her..."
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