A RIGHT TO LIFE
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Through a vent in the door of his first grade classroom, young Bobby Dorsey overhears his teacher discussing his misbehavior with his mother, Margaret. He is shocked when he hears his mother tearfully confess that he is the unwanted result of a high school affair, that she never wanted him and that he would have been aborted if not for the intervention of his grandmother, a devout Southern Baptist, and her pastor. The unexpected and unwanted birth of Bobby causes Margaret to feel she was robbed of the fun of her high school years. Driven to complete her lost adolescence, she exposes Bobby to a string of boyfriends, with whom she has a sexual relationship. Bobby becomes aware of that relationship at an age that is far too early for his healthy sexual development. Some of Margarets boyfriends are cruel and abusive to Bobby. This coupled with his mothers indifference, eventually leads him to feel an outsider in his own home. His mothers preoccupation with her own life and lack of concern for him causes Bobby to become increasingly curious about his absent father. Whenever he asks his mother about him, she says that relationship is over and should never have happened in the first place. However, others who are willing to enlighten him enable Bobby to piece together a picture of his father. His best source of information is Reggie Trimble, a man who works for his mother in her florist shop. Bobby discovers that his father was a local town hero in Purvis, Texas, the small east Texas town where he lives. In high school his father, Rod Wilbanks, was quarterback of the towns football team and led them to two consecutive state championships, a feat never done before, and not since. However, when he made Margaret pregnant during her junior and his senior year, his glory turned to shame, and his parents shipped him off to Chattanooga, Tennessee to help run a motel his uncle owned. The more Bobby learned about his father, the more his fantasies about him grew. He wonde
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