CHAPTER 26: The Overture [5th part]
From "The Saga of One F**ked Mother"
CHAPTER 26 of Mother-Fucking: The Saga of One Fucked Mother is “The Overture” of the “Opera”—a simile used to dramatize the final section of the book—Book 3: The Opera: We Were Mothers Once, and Young. This is the fifth and final part of this Chapter. Act One of the Opera begins next week with the first trial.
In this part, Legion finishes rebutting Herry’s lies in his opening declaration to Family Court. She is incensed at his hypocrisy in his part D, portraying himself as better for the “safety and wellbeing of children and moral climate”, when he is a “pornography perv”. Herry accuses her of restricting his access to the boys and she belatedly realizes it was actually too much access—every weekend—which she had only gone along with as she thought he was working on his sex addiction in order to retrieve the marriage and family.
Legion’s attorney tells her she cannot mention Herry’s sex addiction or his viewing of porn around/with the children because the judge won’t like it, and, besides, he says, it is his 1st amendment right. Legion counters that it is a crime to expose children to porn, but he insists she “move on” (the perp-enabler mantra).
Legion capitulates and does not say anything bad about Herry in her own opening declaration. She presents a long list of reasons she should be given primary custody of the boys and attaches a letter from her parents confirming what a great mother she is. At this time, she still believes Herry only wants the boys on the weekends because he does not want to do the hard work of parenting during the school week.
In the last part, Legion continued with her painstaking rebuttal of all the lies in Herry’s opening declaration as she had thought the truth would matter in a court of law. In hindsight, Legion sees that the judge did not care one bit whether Herry was lying in his under-oath declaration, nor whether she was telling the truth in her rebuttal of all his lies. She has spoken with many other women since her Family Court “mother-fucking” who confirm judges let men get away with lying through their teeth.
Dr. Blue’s novel is based on her own experience of the Custody Crisis. It uniquely conveys how Family Court judges are “mother-fucking” women—a form of systemic oppression and violence directed at ex-wives—as protagonist Legion is systematically and methodically deprived of her children and money and reduced to “one fucked mother”.
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TEASERS
‘Shut up, Legion! Now you just shut up ‘bout this sex addiction stuff! You’re so exasperating, Legion! You have to shut up about this, you hear me!...It isn’t gonna play well…You can’t be saying this stuff in court, I’m tellin’ ya! It just won’t play there at all!’
…Even though it was The Fucking Truth, it wouldn’t play well there in court Jinx had just fucking admitted...
With Herry so very well‑positioned to obtain nothing more than his escape from all accountability for the Truemaier Boys’ primary care and upbringing and for his taking only the Joy Toy Boy fun of acting like their 17‑year‑old, older bro with, therefore, none of the real work of parenting at all, why, the orchestral music decrescendoed before the opening of the curtain on Act One, Trial One. And the Overture of the Opera, “We Were Mothers Once, and Young,” concluded.
CHAPTER 26
The Overture [continued]
“So much for short, short section C. On to D. Its lies. i) ‘in 1985, she gathered the children around and told them they would never see me again until they were 16. This caused two of our children to run away from home for a short period of time.’ Truth? Truth is, isn’t it, Herry: Zane ran away because I gathered him around and told him he could not go off fishing by himself at Robyn and Robin’s that afternoon! And that I was not able to take him out fishing to Finger Lakes State Park either. And when—in his running away—he got as far away as the busy, eight‑lane intersection about four blocks from our duplex, he paused for several minutes, then even angrier because there was no way he could get across it, Zane turned around and trudged back on home. And how do I know any of this, Herry? How? Isn’t it because Jesse and I told you what he and I were really doing while all of this was happening to Zane? The two of us, Jesse and I, had gathered ourselves, hadn’t we Herry, into the Shitbox Dodge and were following Zane out of his view, Jesse beside me on the front seat, and both of us saw this entire display, didn’t we?! Then we also told you that both of us witnessed from a side street where we were parked something else most disconcerting: that when a Columbia cop drove right by Zane in that July heat and saw him all covered up there on the corner in his heavy winter parka packing a fishing pole and a bunch of other gear but with no winter and no frozen‑over pond anywhere within that hot summer’s sight, that cop still didn’t do a thing. He didn’t even pull over and stop to talk to Zane and ask him what was up. We told you all of this when you got home! It was 1985 all right so Zane, being all of 9 years of age, looked only that old to anyone. Especially, we thought, to a lawman. Jesse, only 7, even remarked on it: that how could a policeman drive on by a little kid dressed like that and packing belongings and obviously looking like he was trying to cross a busy, busy highway and not even notice?! Now that is what really happened! That’s what the Truth is, isn’t it, Herry?! And, furthermore, it was I and Jesse who were keeping guard over Zane. It was never, never, never you, Daddee‑Herry, who was safekeeping Zane—ever!”
And as regards lie #ii) the minimal access? “Why, Herry, you know why that really happened, you pornography perv!!! It is easier to lie to and to deceive in an American court of civil law, isn’t it? I gave them over to your mother‑fucking, perverted ‘fatherly care’ up till early January 1989, every single friggin’ weekend for over 48 hours and then, well, you would not stop with your true addiction. You wouldn’t even try. You wouldn’t even try to stop—or go to get help to try to cease with it. Fuck, you won’t even acknowledge it to this day—let alone, the crimes of providing pornography to minor children, O Pillared Daddee! So, hell, was I to endanger the Boys longer than that?! I think not!!!”
Little did I know then what Rachel has since so succinctly stated, “And don’t you forget it, Legion: there jus’ ain’t no judge who doesn’t surf porn himself!” Rachel is, well, right on the very mark, isn’t she? “And not only the judges, is it Herry? It was Mr. Jazzy Jinx himself, my attorney, whose den, like yours Herry, also contained Playboy for his—and for who else’s, for all we know—for his casual off hours’ perusal. It was Mr. Jazzy Jinx who, himself physically manhandling me, rammed me––his very own client, for chris’sake!––upside the inside of his slammed office door and bellowed at me, ‘Shut up, Legion! Now you just shut up ‘bout this sex addiction stuff! You’re so exasperating, Legion! You have to shut up about this, you hear me! Cuz, cuz, a … ah … ah … a lotta nice people read Playboy, Legion. An’ ah, ah, it isn’t gonna play well. In court I mean. You can’t be saying this stuff in court, I’m tellin’ ya! It just won’t play there at all! Believe me!’ Even though it was The Fucking Truth, it wouldn’t play well there in court Jinx had just fucking admitted, Herry. Soooo, how would I know about his own goddamn den, do ya’ suppose, Herry? S’pose someone else who knows pornography’s pernicious deadliness told me about it when she happened to be there within it—Jinx’s den—when at his own home visiting? S’pose someone—other than I!—thinks pornography in the hands of little children is a … well, what, Herry? What would that be, Herry, d’ya’s’pose?! Try the word ‘crime’! We think it’s a mother‑fucking crime, Herry, don’t we, Realtor Madonna and I do?! As regards ‘the safety and wellbeing of children and moral climate’ of section fucking D, Herry?”
Pornography, any form of it, in the hands of, let alone in the subscribed‑to name of, minor children is the crime --- of child endangerment and child abuse. That is what it really is. “But daJudge, even my own lawyer besides yours, Herry, and of course, you yourself, Daddy Herry Dearest? Were you all going to point all of your fingers back at yourselves ever? More accurately, were they each ever going to stop this woman‑loathing act? O, let’s just fucking summon up the First Amendment here. The one no woman ever had a hand or voice in constructing, that First Amendment. And the one that, when constructed, was never done so by those men with the intent by any of them that it would also work for the Not Males, the DEhumans, the females. Just summon it up. And, ‘Move the hell on,’ Jinx was so loud, so angry and soooo hands–on that afternoon. One thing more I can now say with the staunchest of strength, conviction and will, ‘Herry, just whooooa! You just back the fuck up here. Nooooo invoking the First Amendment with me you don’t, not any bloody damn more, you don’t! No fucking First Amendment on this with me, Herry Daddee. Not with me. How dare you entitle this section D anything––anything at all––about the so‑called, alleged safety or wellbeing or moral climate for kids. The very kids who were sperm DNA–spawned by you. How mother‑fucking dare you, Herod Edinsmaier, You Child‑Molesting Criminal!’”
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With that same infamous, two‑word lead‑in phrase of very common legalese … “comes now,” then … comes now the Respondent’s Affidavit, the one dated 10 February 1989, and, as importantly, also known to all of us as “evidence” for Sol Wacotler Seizor’s judging. Note very, very well the near‑to‑complete absence, in seven pages of single‑lined type, of any negative reference to my then still‑husband, Doctor Herod Edinsmaier. “I, Legion True, am the Respondent in a dissolution of marriage action concerning Herod Edinsmaier, my husband, which is called case no. 9215 in the District Court for Storm County. On 06 June 1988, my husband chose to leave the family residence at 5221 Othello Drive.
Our three children, Zane Truemaier, Jesse Truemaier, and Mirzah Truemaier, then ages 11, 9 and 8, respectively, lived with me at the family residence, spending the late spring and summer involved with functions including the finishing of the school year, Quakerly activities, soccer, Little League, swimming, and two birthday celebrations. They saw their father at two of his residences at his, their and my requests on an occasional basis. During the latter half of August 1988, Herod Edinsmaier requested to have the children every weekend from his picking them up at the family residence at 5 p.m. Fridays to his returning them to the family residence Sundays at 6 p.m. I did not feel this arrangement to be just in light of our frequent Quakerly activities on First Day, but nevertheless, I allowed that this arrangement commence on Friday, 02 September 1988, provided we discuss and implement a new arrangement on 02 January 1989. Herod Edinsmaier wanted the date to be 03 January 1989. I agreed to the 03 January 1989 date. Subsequently, all three boys were taken from the family residence every weekend by their father, including Thanksgiving and the New Year’s. I was allowed to have them Saturday, 24 December 1988, if, in exchange, I allowed him to have them Monday, 26 December 1988, which I did allow.
I discussed with all three boys alternative arrangements before the 03 January 1989 meeting with Herod Edinsmaier. On 03 January 1989, I did not agree to his wanting an arrangement involving the following: he was to pick all three boys up from school Fridays at 3 p.m. and have their primary physical care until I would pick them up from school at 3 p.m. Tuesdays. Instead, I asked for and subsequently implemented the arrangement that i) the boys wanted, and ii) my attorney, Mr. Jinx, and I felt was in the best interests of all the children: a) that their father have one, two or all three of them whenever he, they, or I wanted, when it was mutually agreeable, excepting out that the children always stay overnight at the Othello Drive family residence on school nights and b) that for the three months of summer, they spend either the first or last contiguous six weeks with one or the other parent. This arrangement is currently in place and from the Boys’, my attorney’s, and my perspective, working generally well. At times, plans have been made that are not kept by Herod Edinsmaier. At other times before the visitation occurs, Herod Edinsmaier refused to change plans or to be flexible about situations that arise after initial arrangements have been made. The boys always have received and continue to receive their personal mail, as does their father, at the address of the current family dwelling, 5221 Othello Drive. The boys have their own telephone name listings for and received calls at (515) 555‑5584, my personal telephone number. Overall, the boys and I feel that their best interests in this regard are liberally being considered and met and I feel I should maintain the sole primary physical custody of Zane, Jesse and Mirzah for these following other reasons:
1. I work full‑time in the home as a homemaker and mother, am in town both during the day and night every day of the week and at home together with the children all evenings, except for occasional short periods devoted to civic responsibilities, or Al‑Anon meetings.
2. I am presently in excellent physical and good mental health. I was hospitalized in 1954, and 1960, for a tonsillectomy and an emergency appendectomy, respectively. My only other hospitalizations have been for the births of my children in 1976, 1978, and 1979.
3. I try to be an example for my children that includes showing them that I take care of myself:
a. We four are active Quakers since November 1983, and official members of the Religious Society of Friends since 12 June 1988. I serve on the Ames Friends Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee and its Financial Committee. The children are welcome at and may attend all of these meetings. I have taken care for their spiritual custody since their births.
b. I read a great deal—to myself—and aloud to them and always have.
c. I am very active in a political party and in nonpartisan politics, that includes being a mobile voter registrar. The children attend many of the functions with me—and are encouraged to and do participate in these political activities.
d. I have always belonged to their schools’ PTAs, and currently serve on the PTA’s Principal’s Advisory Committee and am their school’s representative on the Superintendent’s Advisory Council, whose primary function involves construction of the $20,000,000 Ames School District budget. The children often attend PTA, PAC, and SAC meetings with me.
e. I am a sports and exercise enthusiast—jogging an average of 25 minutes daily including winters, sometimes accompanied by the boys on their bicycles. I quit smoking cold turkey on 11 August 1983. I enjoy helping them with their baseball, basketball, fishing and ice fishing, swimming and soccer skills, including coaching Mirzah’s soccer team when Herod Edinsmaier was no longer able to do so, and I continued to do so in subsequent seasons. My volunteering for their teams includes meeting deadlines and coordinating treats and rides. I am a licensed Iowa Certified Safe Hunter, having helped our eldest, Zane, also achieve his Certification and the pleasure of safe hunting.
f. I eat nutritiously—and in so doing, they do so also. Our diet consists of low fat, low cholesterol, low sodium, no caffeine, high fiber, and is balanced daily with respect to the basic four food groups. The boys make their own school lunches nightly with my supervision.
g. I play piano, flute and guitar, and have daily shepherded all three boys through two or more years of Suzuki piano instruction, and now encourage the eldest with his trumpet practice.
h. I love and have owned or cared for many animals. The boys presently own and, under my supervision, care for a cat, a snake, and two finches, as well as whatever else found injured, orphaned or otherwise in need of individual attention. Great respect in the regard for animals, property and environment is a given in my and Zane’s hunting procedure.
i. I always use a seat belt. They do, too. I buckled them in from their respective first rides home from the birthing hospitals and have either done so myself or seen that they or others supervise this measure ever since. This given extends to their friends, and anyone else riding with us is requested to use their belts also.
j. I have always seen that the family dwelling is locked or as secure as possible at night. The boys are now responsible for doing this procedure before retiring when they stay overnight at their father’s residences.
k. I have personally acquired formal education and have been responsible for overseeing all three boys' formal curricula, including my just visiting school for the day several times for each boy and have done so yearly since they have attended any elementary school. I also help daily with their remembering to do their homework, never doing the assignments for them but assisting where appropriate. I also provide all necessary transportation or other assistance to them so that they may pursue before and after school activities. As soon as the present family dwelling is sold we shall move to the immediate neighborhood of that school so that meeting varying school‑related activity schedules, including friendships, by all three boys can easily be met by walking. At the time of purchasing 5221 Othello Drive, in July and August of 1987, a residence in that school’s immediate neighborhood suitable to Herod Edinsmaier was not found.
l. I appreciate punctuality and try to show the boys how and where punctuality is useful, kind and wise in all their affairs.
m. I advocate accident and disease prevention that includes smoke detectors installed when and where absent, daily humidification for dry winter air, water safety equipment and lessons, prudent housekeeping measures, especially involving safety and hygiene. That includes removal of unnecessary obstacles, removal of animal manure from home or yard, removal of extraordinary build-up of molds and mildew from bathroom fixtures and appropriate lessons and equipment for other unfamiliar or dangerous activities such as hunting and skateboarding.
n. I appreciate good grooming and take care of my appearance and countenance. In like manner, I have taught the boys, and for six years now they have known the basics of, how to do or help with their own laundry. They bathe daily and I encourage them in the discipline of keeping themselves and their immediate space free of clutter and filth, and in appropriate condition. I respect their and they respect my modesty, especially in matters of physical appearance and speech.
o. I advocate and practice energy, resources’ and money conservation. Examples include the turning off of unused utilities, water conservation, coupon shopping, use of clotheslines when available, the practice of Quaker Frugal at least once weekly and savings accounts or plans. The boys directly or personally participate in all these measures because I have helped them to understand the wisdom of their use. Wise and proper handling of all property, including their own, and the environment is observed and encouraged.
p. I am in excellent physical and good mental health as evidenced by a complete annual physical examination performed by Dr. Robert Narod of Ames, Iowa, on 02 November 1988, that included my annual influenza immunization. At that time, Dr. Narod offered me medication to aid in sleeping, my having received the news exactly one month earlier on 02 October 1988, that I was being divorced; but I refused it and have never used any such medication because of that news or at any time during the separation. I attend Al‑Anon meetings approximately twice weekly and open Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice weekly because of the alcoholic spouse in my life and have done so since October 1987, learning to understand the “dry drunk” syndrome. Furthermore, the children currently attend many of these meetings with me. In addition, we four attend two family counseling programs weekly. At the Iowa State University Department of Family Environment, I am learning how to father and the boys are being helped to deal with underage smoking, nightmares, boredom and confusion. At the weekly Nurturing Program with Youth and Shelter Services, Ames, Iowa, we are all four learning or relearning ways of nurturing each other. The boys have been or are currently active in stress groups or children of alcoholic families groups at either Youth and Shelter Services or with the guidance counselor of their Kate Mitchell Elementary School. I make a habit of staying well and missing very few days of work or endeavor yearly; they also stay well and in school. When situations requiring immediate medical or dental attention do arise, I have always been there for all of them; and in follow‑up, I have seen to it that directives, medications, necessary exercises or equipment (eye patching, calf muscle exercises, eyeglasses, shoe arches, bandages, corrective braces or slings, limb wraps) and return visits have been complied with. I have also seen to their routine physical examinations, semiannual dental appointments and nightly tooth care since infancy.
q. I believe in love and try daily to practice nonviolence in all affairs, trustworthiness, equality, listening, compassion, charity, sensitivity, kindness, friendship, honesty, humility and awareness. What my interpretations are of these qualities I have tried to give my three boys as guides for them to use in choosing their directions. My interpretations include the “little things”: caring to remember to fix BLT on toast for breakfast from time to time, to decorate for Valentine’s Day, to send their godmother a birthday card or their grandfather a typed letter for the heck of it—and to show him their keyboarding skills, to help check under the pillow after the Tooth Fairy visited, to get Santa’s work done by 5 a.m. Christmas Day, to color the Easter eggs and to bake the birthday cakes—each of these things, year after year, to care to remember to renew the boys’ subscriptions before the deadlines; and some “not so little things”: how to make friends and to be a friend (Friend), how to wake up every morning loving your brothers and wishing for them and helping them to achieve respect and well‑being for more of their day that day than less of their day that day, how to apologize to somebody, and when they, the boys, have been truly wronged, how to help them admit this injustice to themselves and feel comfortable, able and deserving in asking that that errant person apologize to them, and how to help them believe that they have the right to mess up, to make mistakes, to blow it, to disappoint themselves and to fall short of the mark.
I love my husband, Herod Edinsmaier, and my boys, Zane, Jesse and Mirzah. For all that means, I believe all of their best interests are being and will best be served by my maintaining the children’s sole primary physical care.
Attached is a letter from my parents with whom the children and I have frequent contact.
[Grandpa and Grandma True’s Williamsburg, Iowa, inside address]
06 February 1989 REMARKS
To Whom It May Concern:
1) Legion participates in the children’s school activities. We both, as Legion’s parents and as the boys’ grandparents, visited their Kate Mitchell Elementary School (on the far south side of Ames) on Tuesday, 31 January 1989. Several teachers volunteered that these boys, all three, are talented. We have observed homework being done under her guidance and direction. Legion attends P.T.A. and is much concerned about the curriculum, the school budget, and the financial welfare of the entire Ames School system. The family lives on Othello Drive near 13th St. on the north side of Ames, but because Legion feels that the modified–open–classroom mode of teaching being offered at Kate Mitchell Elementary School provides desirable advantages over the more conventional closed classroom system, she personally drives the children to and from school daily.
2) After we realized that the oldest son was a nature lover and much interested in hunting and fishing, his grandfather gave the boy, now age 12, a birthday gift of a Savage .22‑.410 beginning shooter’s gun, an over/under rifle/shotgun. It was his mother who saw to it that the boy took (and passed) a formal course in gun handling, gun safety, and marksmanship from experts in the Ames Chapter of the Izaak Walton League. Legion herself also took the same coursework at the same time, passed all requirements, and often takes her son hunting during legal season. Both mother and all three boys enjoy the outdoors in the recreational sense as well as otherwise.
3) Furthermore, Legion herself likes all athletic sports that her sons enjoy and takes part in them also—even to the extent that she coaches teams.
4) Legion expects the children to join in routine household tasks, and occasionally gives appropriate reward if assigned work is well done.
5) She does not hesitate to tackle difficult maintenance jobs herself. She has taught herself and knows a great deal about the mechanics of home and family equipment like the care of the laundry equipment, and is already teaching the boys the rudiments of such knowledge.
6) She is punctual—carries out decisions, once they are made.
7) Because of her profound, congenital deafness in one ear, she constantly has to improvise ways and means of dealing with even a simple problem, such as responding to a child’s question when she is on the telephone.
8) Legion watches very carefully the health needs and safety precautions of and for the boys, and often discusses these concerns with us. Scheduled and unscheduled physical examinations, shots, immunizations, dental work, eye exams; seat belts, field and water safety—all these are but examples in this reference.
9) She has been satisfied with “make‑do”, “hand‑me‑down” clothing and other necessities for the children in order to cut costs and conserve resources, and to treat all three fairly and equally.
10) Legion will make and take time to have friends associate with her children. Keeping well‑trained pets in the home adds to this “bit of happiness” for her boys and their friends.
Respectfully submitted,” And then both my parents, Mehitable True and AmTaham True, each signed the letter separately. Since Mehitable is legally blind it is not possible that she typed this; and I recognize all over it anyhow my father’s text, not the least of which humorously enough, of course, is the exact description of the gun he bequeathed to Zane! So he not only typed it, AmTaham created it, too.
Never has there been in all of Acts One, Two or Three—because I now know … there never would have needed to be—for endorsing, let alone, for ‘protecting’ Herry’s parental fathering role––there never would have needed to be one such document like AmTaham’s had been for me–– … so never has there ever been such a written, defensive‑like submission to The Court nor to any one of the some 25 total judges (almost all of whom—that is, 24 of whom were male––except for, of course!!! that lone, token female appellate one who had penned the scathing but, naturally, … powerless … six‑page dissentience, Judge Patsy Shawshank) formally involved of such a sworn‑to or affirmed letter by Juggern Aut Misein, the androcentrically tyrannical patriarch of that entire passel of Edinsmaiers, let alone one from him detailing and defending the fatherly capabilities and traits of one of those half dozen male children of Detanimod’s, Herod. Not one word from Juggern, then still an Ancestor in Training, Detanimod being, of course, long driven quite well‑dead and so, by the time of the opening of any Act, already an Ancestor!
With frumpy little Miss Cherry Canard charmed right into his back pocket, thieving and thuggish and perverted Herry‑Daddee Edinsmaier found himself more than very well‑positioned then to not secure physical custody of Jesse, Mirzah and Zane at all—but to so make it all out to look like that was exactly what he so badly wanted. Attorney Jazzy Jinx was quite correct on calling this one.
With Herry so very well‑positioned to obtain nothing more than his escape from all accountability for the Truemaier Boys’ primary care and upbringing and for his taking only the Joy Toy Boy fun of acting like their 17‑year‑old, older bro with, therefore, none of the real work of parenting at all, why, the orchestral music decrescendoed before the opening of the curtain on Act One, Trial One. And the Overture of the Opera, “We Were Mothers Once, and Young,” concluded.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
Dr. Legion True: One Fucked Mother
Dr. Herod (Herry) Edinsmaier: Legion’s husband/Sperm Source [“re: I am snide” backwards]
Jesse Truemaier: Legion’s son
Zane Truemaier: Legion’s son
Mirzah Truemaier: Legion’s son
AmTaham True: Legion’s father [Mahatma backwards]
Mehitable True: Legion’s mother [Me hit-able—i.e. she was abusive]
Ardys and Endys: Legion’s sisters [names backwards]
Sterling: Legion’s brother [her mother’s planned name of next son (who never came)]
Mi Sprision O'Revinnoco: Herry’s sister [misprision: concealing knowledge of treason/O'Revinnoco = O'Connivero backwards]
Juggern Aut Misein Edinsmaier: Legion’s father-in-law [juggernaut; aut = 0; misein = “to hate (misogyny)”]
Detanimod Edinsmaier: Legion’s mother-in-law [dominated backwards]
Ava Saffron True and Zebulon True: respectively, Legion's paternal grandmother and her husband, Legion's paternal grandfather
Rowland and Wyman Natures: respectively, Legion's most favored uncle and most favored male first cousin
Fannie Issicran McLive: fawning enabler of ex [narcissi(st) and Mc(Evil) backwards]
Legion’s Friends: Margaret, Mona, Yanira, Stormy, Lynda, László, Jane, Kincaid, Joseph, Sheryl
Legion’s Best Friends: Ms Grace and Dr Lionel Portia
Wende: = Legion's friend after divorce [committed suicide due to Custody Crisis]
Jim Cornball: Herry’s acquaintance from AA and realtor
Loser Lorn: Insurance agent referred by Cornball
Judge Harley Butcher: Family Court judge
Judge Sol Wacotler Seizor: Family Court judge
Judge Barry Crowrook: Appellate Court judge
Judge Pansy Shawshank: Appellate Court judge
Jazzy Jinx: Legion’s Family Court lawyer who sold her out
Shindy Scheisser: Herry’s lawyer [shindy = noisy; scheisser = German for shithead]
Li Zhang: Herry’s Aussie affair
Dr Freddie Goldstein & Ella: Herry’s colleague and wife
Mick: = Herry's acquaintance from high school; best man [not in Herry’s life after that as he had no true friends]
Varry Wussamai: Herry's AA sponsor (not a real friend) [I am a wuss backwards]
David Humes: nursing student; classmate of Legion's, y1968 - y1971, New York City
Edmund Silver: Legion's boyfriend pre-Herry
Braemore St: where Legion and her family lived, y1983 - y1986
Havencourt condominium: Legion's Ames apartment; after separation
Zephyr: tabby cat of Zane's, Mirzah's, Jesse's [pronounced “Zay – fear”]
Madonna: realtor
Larry Brouhaha: court-mandated marriage counselor
Carlotta Klutz: Legion’s Family Court attorney
Judge Sol Wacotler Seizor: District Court judge on first two trials
Judge Harley Butcher: District Court judge for third trial
Dr. Shark: Herry’s residency supervisor who fired him
Carrie Canard: custody evaluator
Author: Dr. Blue, aka Ofherod, BSN, DVM, PhD = Commander Edinsmaier's Handmaid (Commander reiamsnidE's Handmaid)
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