My Happy Place, by Jane Kruger
Born at Edmonton General Hospital to a single mother, which was risqué at the time. However, the man next door thought she just glowed through the pregnancy and was even more beautiful. They married when I was 4 months old and gave me 3 step sisters. We moved to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia just before I turned 6. It was a small town called Winfield back then. The name has since been changed to Lake Country. I started grade 1 in 1966 and at graduation, a lot of us had been together for the 12 years of schooling! Off to college but I dropped out to go to work and move away from home, finally. Asked my job with a big bank to transfer me to Edmonton and they did as I wished. Finally, I feel a lot freer. Now to have some fun! On to the next phase of marriage and 2 daughters. However, the marriage didn’t last but we agreed to be great parents and we both did stay amicable and raised two beautiful women. Today, I have a granddaughter from each of them and I love gran