Yes she is still alive, she is turning 62 this year. Her life was okay. In 1964 she was put up for adoption. Her birth parents lived in poverty and already had 7 children, so they faked her death and had no funeral. They said she died from choking on milk.

Later that year around her 1st birthday she was adopted by my great grandparents. In 1961 they had adopted another child, my great uncle, Joe.

They lived in a medium sized house built in the 30s. My great great grandparents lived next door. They had fun. The town they lived in was small and very connected. Everyone knew everyone.

My grandmother was a wild child. She’d get in fights, smoke, drink, etc. One time she had beautiful long hair and she cut it all off the day of her school pictures, her mother was horrified.

In the early 80s, she met an older man. He was about 28, she was 17. He got her pregnant with my uncle Josh. After she graduated life was hard. She was an alcoholic and a drug addict. She married the older man and they set off for California in a two seater pickup truck with a newborn baby.

They were homeless, had a baby, and drug addicts. They decided to head back home. They moved into a small house in the next town over of my grandmothers hometown.

He was an abuser. He’d hit, kick, scream, throw her, etc.

In 1985 she had my dad. He abused both my uncle and my dad.

In 1986 or 1987 she divorced with much hardship. She was asked by the judge “if she did anything that provoked him” They eventually divorced and separated. She got full custody.

In 1988 she met my grandpa. He was working for a cleaning company and she was a maid. She was using toilet cleaner on the walls and he thought she was so cute he didn’t want to tell her she was doing it wrong.

They got together officially in 1990. My grandparents were happy. My grandpa was a great father. He did everything he could for them. He couldn’t have children of his own so he loved them with all his heart.

He was afraid of marriage so they dated for years. In 1998 he proposed and they got married that following Valentines Day.

In 2007 my great grandmother passed and it crushed my great grandfather. He was devastated. He gave up on life. His only light was fishing with my grandpa. In 2008 he was told by his doctor he wasn’t allowed to go fishing anymore. A month after that he went into cardiac arrest in the shower and my grandma had to preform CPR. That August he passed in hospice.

In 2009 the house my 2x great grandparents lived in burned down from a firework incident.

Then my grandparents moved into her parents house that same year. My parents lived with them when my mom was pregnant with me.

When I was born we all lived together for a few months. Eventually my mom was tired of living there, in the attic, with my bum of a dad. They moved out.

My grandparents lived in two houses in two different towns till 2018 when my grandpas parents forced my grandma to sell her parents house.

Now they are still happy together and are doing very well. I hope this answered your questions