Ma Bremers Boys
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Molly Bremer, like any other woman on her wedding day, does not expect to become a single mother. However, that is her fate during the trying times of World War II.A high school romance, rooted mostly in hormones, fades. Three children and a tight budget make for difficult times. An insecure husband, with growing dependency on alcohol, turns to abuse and then abandons the family.Molly Bremer is alone in Little Rock.To aggravate her stark new condition in life, her spouse takes their oldest son with him on his way out of town. Her life and her family are disintegrating in staggering quickness.Mollys struggles during that awful year of 1942 are overwhelming. The weeks and months are like a prison sentence for her, locked on the absence of Peter, her son, and frustrated that she is giving insufficient attention to Hattie and Bobby.But like most single moms, she manages. She has little choice. But it isnt easy.Then Christmas arrives early. Peter returns home.But lifes trials seem to be a relentless saga for Molly Bremer. Her sons follow wayward paths as they grow into manhood. Peter is seduced by avarice and falls in love with money and success, while Bobby, the youngest, bows to his churlish nature and ends up with a life in prison.Peters trip with vanity wends its way from Arkansas, St. Louis and finally to Cedar Rapids where he is crowned the king, president of a new cattle slaughtering company that is ready to duke it out with Americas Big Four meat packers. Ambition collides with reality. His desire for a fast buck runs into the deliberate constrict of mob business.Meanwhile, Bobbys inability to suppress an impulsive and dour personality heaps unending distress on his mother. He eventually becomes a permanent resident of the Kansas State Penitentiary, the final sentence for murder.Ironically, along their errant paths and aberrant lifestyles, both men marry strong women. But like Molly, these women were unable to bring permanent change to the dark side of thei
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