Kidnapped 5 times by "Nonnie."

In a weird attempt to keep me away from my mother when I was young Nonnie (my grandmother) kidnapped me five times and took me by bus to a new city. A few times, mom had to hire detectives to find us.

In Tyrone, PA we stayed with relatives, in Florida we lived in St. Petersburg for a while and then moved to Deland when mom found us.

We lived with my mom and stepdad for a while and then took off for Roanoke, VA. 

They followed us to Virginia and then accepted a job for ballroom dancers in Puerto Rico.

That's when we ended up back in Wooster, Ohio for my high school years while mom and my stepdad lived in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

Grandma kidnaps me 5 times.

Between 1950 and 1958 my grandmother kidnapped me five times to keep me away from my mother.

From age 4 to 12 I lived in six different cities.

I lived away from my mom for 20 years until I joined her in 1967.

The Bishop Hotel.

1951: My grandmother kidnapped me again to St. Petersburg, FL. 

I remember sitting on a balcony of our second-floor room at the Bishop Hotel watching tourists on green-painted benches. 

It was hot and humid. 

Something new to me as I lived up north since birth.