{"id":7709,"date":"2026-03-03T02:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:20:36","slug":"devoted-love-on-40-acres-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/?p=7709","title":{"rendered":"Devoted Love, On 40 Acres Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0CHAPTER 1<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Forever, My Love<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The best thing in life is finding someone who knows all your flaws, mistakes, and weaknesses, and still thinks you’re completely amazing.”<\/em><\/p>

\u2014Unknown Author<\/p>

Buddy was known as a lover, not a fighter, but when he had to, he could take care of himself. He was born with a cleft palate. The deformity could not be repaired because his Mom had no extra money for hospital bills. One day, in school, as Buddy walked across the gym, some guy flicked his hand in front of his nose as if to get rid of a bad smell. He looked at Buddy with a sneer and said, \u201cHey, where ya going, Hare-lip.\u201d<\/p>

Buddy turned around, rushed back to the guy, and without a word, he picked him up and threw him through a plate-glass window.<\/p>

Buddy spun away in a huff, stomped up the stairs, and never looked back. The boy was taken to the hospital and stitched up, but he never bothered Buddy again.<\/p>

\u201cI know you called him Buddy,\u201d people said, \u201cbut what was his real name?\u201d<\/p>

Yes, Buddy was his real name. He was born in 1937 into a family of twelve children and raised in the hollers of West Virginia. His Dad was killed in a coal mining accident when Buddy was only five months old. His Mother raised her twelve kids by herself. She told me that when Buddy was a little boy, and he got mad at her, he would go into the bedroom and turn up the corner of the quilt on her freshly made bed. And, when he was sick, the only thing he could eat was radishes.<\/p>

Buddy was the youngest of twelve siblings, and I was the oldest of five.<\/p>

Buddy was a man who didn\u2019t speak much, but when he did, he meant it. In all the years we were married, Buddy never raised his voice to me, well, except for that one time that broke my heart. And that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say…for now.<\/p>

At the time I met Buddy, I had been married to another man, named Tom, for almost four years. Tom and I looked forward to having our first baby. I finally got pregnant and was overjoyed. But the joy soon turned to sorrow. I woke up in the middle of the night when I was only eight weeks pregnant, and fear clutched my heart.<\/p>

\u201cHey, Tom, wake up,\u201d I said, \u201cI\u2019m hemorrhaging, and I need to get to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cOh, go back to sleep,\u201d he said, \u201cYou\u2019ll be okay in the morning.\u201d<\/p>

But I wasn\u2019t okay, even after we rushed to the emergency, and neither was our first baby.<\/p>

\u201cSometimes these things happen,\u201d the doctor said, \u201cbut you\u2019re young. Just try again.\u201d<\/p>

So, we tried again. I got pregnant and carried that baby for almost three months. When I started spotting and cramping, the same thing happened; I lost our second baby. I worried that I might never have the baby I dreamed about.<\/p>

\u201cYou\u2019re young and healthy,\u201d the doctor said, \u201cjust try again.\u201d<\/p>

So, I got pregnant for the third time. They say the third time is the charm, but on Christmas Eve, when I was in my last month of pregnancy, I had a terrible fright. We were at my brother Ronnie\u2019s house celebrating Christmas Eve. Ronnie had had a bit too much to drink, and he slurred his words as he talked to Tom,<\/p>

\u201cHey, Tom,\u201d he said, \u201cI forgot to get my wife a Christmas card. I\u2019m in no shape to drive now. Could you take my car, run up to the drugstore, and pick one out for her?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cSure,\u201d Tom said.<\/p>

We didn\u2019t have a car, even though we were making payments on four different vehicles. Tom wrecked them all, and the insurance company had totaled each one.<\/p>

Ronnie reached into his pocket, grabbed his keys, and handed them to Tom. Then he opened another bottle of beer, threw the cap across the room, and took a big swig.<\/p>

I grabbed my coat and headed out the door with Tom.<\/p>

I usually rode along because I never considered him a decent driver. So many times I had to yell \u201cLook out,\u201d to prevent him from hitting someone, but when I did,<\/p>

He always yelled at me, \u201cOkay, I saw him!\u201d
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But I knew his eyesight was not the best as he looked through his extra-thick glasses.<\/p>

It had been snowing hard all that day. I sat in the car freezing as I pulled my coat tighter around my swollen stomach. It won\u2019t be long now, little one.<\/i><\/p>

The windshield was covered in snow and ice so that you couldn\u2019t see a thing. Tom took his hankie and cleared a small spot in the middle of the window.<\/p>

\u201cAren\u2019t you going to clear the windshield?\u201d I asked him.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cNo,\u201d <\/b>he said, \u201cI can see.\u201d<\/b><\/p>

Then off we went, with him leaning over and peeking through a small hole in the windshield. I couldn\u2019t see a thing on my side, and I was afraid that he couldn\u2019t see much more when all of a sudden, BAM!<\/p>

Something slammed into my back, taking my breath away. It turned out that Tom had hit a parked car alongside the road. We found out later that someone had broken down just a few minutes earlier. He had been under his hood, working on his car, but he had left to get a part.<\/p>

After I got my breath back, I started crying. I was so worried about my baby.<\/p>

Tom looked at me and said, \u201cWhat are you bawling about? I got hurt too. I hit my chin on the steering wheel, but I\u2019m not crying.\u201d<\/p>

Someone called for help, and the police came. An officer walked around to my side, looked at my bulging belly, and said, \u201cHow far apart are your pains?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m not in labor,\u201d I told him.<\/p>

An ambulance pulled in. Tom jumped out of the car and yelled at the driver,<\/p>

\u201cHow much is this ambulance going to cost me?\u201d<\/p>

The officer walked around, looked at Tom pacing, and said in a rough voice,<\/p>

\u201cYou get right back in that car and stay with your wife until I tell you to get out.\u201d<\/p>

The paramedic approached me, questioned me, helped me into the ambulance, and headed for the hospital. I hadn\u2019t felt any movement, and I was terrified.<\/p>

After the doctor examined me, he said, \u201cYour baby\u2019s fine. It probably thought you just fell off a horse or something.\u201d<\/p>

My back hurt quite severely, but I was okay as long as my baby was fine. We called for a ride back to Ronnie\u2019s and found him passed out on the bathroom floor. Tom shook him awake, told him what happened, and that his car was totaled.<\/p>

\u201cAw, that\u2019s okay,\u201d he said, \u201cas long as you\u2019re both alright.\u201d<\/p>

Only a few days later, I went into labor. I thought I was having back labor. But I found out later that Ronnie had a five-gallon gas can in his back seat, and the heavy can had slammed into my back. I had two broken ribs.<\/p>

Finally, after over 36 hours, we were blessed with a precious little girl. The baby I had longed for filled my empty arms and my heart. She was born with Clubfoot, but that was something a specialist could easily fix. We named her Tonya. We chose the name because the first part sounded like \u2018Tom,\u2019 and the second half was my name. Then we discovered a town called Tonawanda in New York.<\/p>

I affectionately called her my little \u201cTiny Tears.\u201d When I was a young girl, the only thing I ever wanted for Christmas was a little doll that cried real tears named \u201cTiny Tears.\u201d I never received that doll. Then, when I had my first baby, Mom came to the hospital to visit and meet her new granddaughter.<\/p>

She took my little girl in her arms and said, \u201cNow, Wanda, you have your very own real \u2018Tiny Tears.\u201d<\/p>

When I placed our little girl in her Daddy\u2019s arms, he cried.<\/p>

But only nine months after Tonya was born, I was the one who cried when I learned about the things Tom had been caught doing. I knew that, under the law, I could leave him for those very reasons. Although it broke my heart to go, I knew that I could not stay with a man who would do something so despicable. The day I discovered what he had been doing would have been our 4th anniversary. I made plans to move out after Tom left for work. The only one I knew who had a truck was Buddy, so I called on him for help. He came right over, didn\u2019t ask any questions, and moved my baby girl and me out, bag and baggage, to a small, cheap, two-room apartment upstairs in Flint, Michigan. The only bathroom was down the hall, and we had to share it with the older couple in the next apartment. Tonya and I survived on a small monthly income and food stamps.<\/p>

What began as a friendship, two-and-a-half years later, had turned into love.<\/p>

Buddy was easy-going, calm, loving, short, cute, and cuddly – my life, my rock, my confidant, my loving arms after a rough day. We shared love, laughter, tears, pain, and the blessings and burdens of life. He played guitar and sang love songs to me. One of my favorites was \u201cTeddy Bear,\u201d by Elvis Presley.<\/p>

Initially, we had been shopping for a set of rings. The set I had picked was too expensive, so I returned the rings to the clerk.<\/p>

I whispered to Buddy, \u201cWe\u2019ll look somewhere else later.\u201d<\/p>

But the next day, after he got off work, he surprised me and bought the set I had loved at the jewelry store. He came home, got down on one knee, and said,<\/p>

\u201cI love you, sweetheart. Will you marry me?\u201d Tears filled my eyes as I hugged his neck and said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>

We were willing to try marriage again. However, according to statistics, our marriage was doomed to failure because we had both been previously married. Plus, there was another problem, a BIG problem.<\/p>

We were both still married to others, although we hadn\u2019t been with them for years.<\/p>

Although Buddy\u2019s divorce was in process, mine had not even begun. Buddy was paying child support, and I only had enough money to survive on, but never any extra money to file for a divorce.<\/p>

Another thing that filled me with guilt. We were living together. I wasn\u2019t that kind of girl\u2014at least not until we fell in love. The shame of sleeping together outside of marriage tore me apart. I vowed to stop several times, but my promises faded in his arms; I couldn\u2019t say no for long. During that time, I became pregnant twice, but I lost them both again, through early miscarriages. I was so thankful that I still had my precious little \u201cTiny Tears.\u201d<\/p>

I hated to take Tonya away from her real Dad, but it\u2019s not only blood that makes a good Dad; it\u2019s love, too. Buddy loved her and treated her as if she were his own, and I wouldn\u2019t have accepted it any other way. She loved him dearly, and his pet name for her was \u201cSkeeter.\u201d They were great together. He taught her to love animals, not to be fearful of the dark, and how to ride a pony. She was not afraid of anything in her Daddy\u2019s arms. She felt safe. I couldn\u2019t have been happier.<\/p>

My previous husband, Tom, was way behind on his child support. He claimed that he couldn\u2019t pay because he had no money or job.<\/p>

Buddy came home one day with an announcement.<\/p>

\u201cHey, Sweetheart, guess who I saw working at the plant today? I thought I recognized him, but I wasn\u2019t sure, so I followed him. And, sure enough, it was Tom, pushing a cart around and working at General Motors.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cYou\u2019re kidding me, right?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cNo, it was him, big as life. I was careful that he didn\u2019t see me.\u201d<\/p>

The next day, I went to the Friend of the Court and told them that Tom had a job. An order was issued, forcing him to pay his child support. They would allow him to pay his back pay in small increments. Then he became angry, so he took me to court, claiming I had refused to give him his rights to take Tonya on the weekends. Although I would have liked to, I never denied him his rights. Tonya never wanted to go with him, and on the rare occasions he showed up, she complained that he had dropped her off at a babysitter and gone out with his girlfriend. There was never anything at his house that she liked to eat. One day, he fixed her scrambled eggs, but she didn\u2019t want them, so when he wasn\u2019t looking, she went over and threw them behind the couch. We found out later that she was allergic to eggs.<\/p>

So I came up with a plan. Tom was due to come and take Tonya for the weekend, but it was a toss-up whether he would follow through. \u00a0Sometimes he left his little girl waiting on the porch with a suitcase and never showed up. It had been about a month since we had last seen him. I put on a maternity dress, then stuffed it with padding until I looked about 8 months pregnant. I thought Tom would know I wasn\u2019t about to deliver after only seeing me a month before, but he didn\u2019t. The minute he saw me, he started yelling,<\/p>

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to blame that kid on me!! You\u2019re not getting one red cent out of me!! I\u2019ll take you to court!!\u201d<\/b><\/p>

He took off in a huff, leaving his little girl behind. I found out later that he went straight to his lawyer and filed for divorce. I felt guilty, but my plan worked. Although I wanted a divorce, God used Tom to give me my wonderful daughter, for which I will be forever grateful.<\/p>

Now we just had to wait for our divorces to become final so we could get married.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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