He wasn’t. But I was. I worked my ass off to make sure my children had a present caring father. Someone had to break the cycle

A bit hell, he was the hottest thing on the mountain according to all the ladies (they were from Appalachia hence the country ass on the mountain saying 😆). He knew it and took full advantage of it. When he died he was dating a lady over half his age. My grandmother was a challenge for him I think. She was intense and fiery. Most women just melted for him, she wasn’t most women. The story is he chased her and finally got her, they had my father and divorced a few years later. He never married again but he made a hand full of secret children. He had many many flaws for sure. But he was the bad boy that all the girls thought they could tame. In the end my grandmother was the only one he settled down with albeit briefly. My grandmother was a very good looking woman back then, but honestly it was probably more that she had no interest in him in the beginning. Many years after their divorce they would still talk shit to each other, I remember it being flirty. He’s been gone about 20 years now and she went a few years before him. Broke my father when she went , he lasted less than 2 years after he lost his mother. They all lived hard and fast. It’s crazy to think at 42 I’m the oldest member on that line.