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Gregg Olsen
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February 7 - February 7, 2024
and her arms wrapped around her, but added that it was fine because she loved Nikki so, so much.
Nikki found a cache of letters from her dad and his side of the family, and discovered that her father’s family had sent birthday and Christmas gifts as she was growing up.
Mom took the Christmas girt's and put her name on then
leaving
Danny Long, who was living across the hall from Shelly. Lara knew Danny’s
bowled at Tiger Lanes.
Watsons did find a box full of things stolen from the cabin on Mount
Shelly and Danny moved into the house in Battle Ground that Grandma Anna had always promised would be her favorite grandchild’s.
wedding chapel near the courthouse in Vancouver
pushed back on Shelly more than she’d been used to experiencing.
hard and physically. Dishes shattering.
to—she noticed holes punched into the drywall. The
and Danny left to cool off or get away, Shelly would pack the girls in the car and start looking for him.
Shelly, her family would later say, always liked to hunt.
“You need to call him Dad,” she said.
What!
her new man’s surname.
needed money for a divorce. She complained that Danny
Les didn’t question any of it.
“I thought of Danny as my dad,” Nikki recalled,
Knotek. “I
new dad. I hated him because I loved Danny.
behind the nursing home in Battle Ground.
Nikki started screaming for her mother, and suddenly—as in that
wasn’t a dream, Mommy.”
The speed with which her mother responded. The peculiar look on her face—more interested than concerned.
marijuana.
first white settlers came to the rainy, windy spot in the state’s southwest corner in the 1850s.
Pacific Ocean meets the Willapa River and various tributaries is the kind of place in which abundance wasn’t given, it was earned. Its triad
natural resources.
Pacific County boy through
through, having lived his first four years in nearby Lebam,
That the Knoteks never had a lot of money was an understatement. Dave
Their clothing was older, not always in the best shape.
“No disrespect to my parents. They worked very hard. We just didn’t
Shirley
Hellions Michelle
he was disciplined in the way his father had been. Al had a razor
Dave graduated from Raymond High School—home of the Seagulls—with
Date bare Dave
Livid in Raymond
in the navy like my dad had
came home
bachelor. He was a nice-looking, athletic guy, having learned to surf in Hawaii. He had a kind, gentle personality, though he could also party. Best of all, he had a good job at timber giant Weyerhaeuser. Upon his return, he became a member of fraternal orders like
that doesn’t hit the Washington coast until the end of August.
left his place in Raymond and drove his orange VW surf
Long Beach won.
The Sore Thumb, it was packed with young men not doing much of anything.
Shelly’s life when it came to choosing men, there was no denying she was very good-looking,
had, and in her early years, she was more than happy to work it.
league. He just knew it.
movie star in some of them old films. A wow. Other guys were hitting on her right and left and I just looked at her. Pretty soon, she came over to my table just as I was ready to ask her to dance.”
The Sore Thumb burned to the ground the night after they met.
