Chapter 6

When Ethyl Esther’s youngest child, Katie Keetone, was in fifth grade, her best friend decided that it would be “cool” to only use their initials from then on.  At first it had been a struggle, but within a year nobody called her anything but Kay Kay.

When Kay Kay was in eighth grade her father, Herbert Keetone, passed away from a sudden massive heart attack and although she graduated at the top of her class of eighteen, she had no ambition or money to go to collage.  Instead she worked at every low-paying job she caught wind of.  She did a stint at the local Western Wear store, taught the second-grade class part-time at the town riding school, waitressed at the drive-in diner, cleaned houses, and tried forging home-made hacksaws.