Making The Move
Despite her father’s apprehensions about her choice to leave, he couldn’t stop Evelyn as she made the approximately 950-mile move from Chicago to Fort Worth. Because she was eighteen, she was legally considered an ‘adult,’ and could make her own decision to go, regardless of her father’s feelings or unease at the situation. Victor had shared, “And she bought a ticket and said ‘I’m leaving,” just like that.
