Decades ago, Ida, the kids, and he spent the Fourth of July with his sister Brandy in Northern California. Reggie was working as an electrical technician for Zorn Automobiles at the time. It was before they lost the house. Even though finances weren’t as tight as they were about to become, Ida and Reggie had saved for a year to afford the trip, and the children were ecstatic—they had never left the state.
