My Stars Are Still Shining excerpts

I have often wondered how people enter other people’s lives and become a significant part of their senior years. I’m not talking about family or grandchildren. I’m talking about strangers. This memoir is about my life and how I happened to come into the lives of Miss June, who was sixty-nine, and her daughter Billie, who was fifty-one when I came into their lives. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end of our relationship. I must start from the beginning of their lives, because never in a thousand years could they imagine meeting me.
My mother, Virginia, hadn’t been born when Miss June and Billie lived in Mobile, Alabama, without an inkling of New York or what the future held in store for them. I give an account of what transpired and led up to their migration to Harlem, forsaking their past life to become settled into being Harlemites. Thirty-four years later, out of the blue, Miss June and Billie discovered me as an infant. I was floating down the river of life, and they fetched me out, not realizing they both would be entwined in my life forever.