Annoyed that your child can’t seem to make her own breakfast? You might note that she’s only 4. Steve proved a somewhat bumbling parent, especially obtuse about age-appropriate expectations. When Barbara died in a car crash, Alysia was only a toddler.Ī skewed, romantic notion took root in the little girl’s heart: Her dad had been so in love with her mom that, having lost her, he turned to men. The marriage frayed Barbara took up with a drug addict named Wolf, who moved in with them. The night Barbara gave birth to Alysia, Steve’s young lover, John, was with him at the hospital. They married, and when she got pregnant, he unenthusiastically went along with her decision to have the child.
As a graduate student in Atlanta in the late 1960s, he found a fellow student named Barbara who shared his political bent and seemed not to mind his involvements with men. For her father, parenthood - let alone single parenthood - wasn’t necessarily part of the plan.
Abbott, who lives in Cambridge, has a husband now, and children of her own.
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