Unintended Providence

The idea for this story had been ruminating for a couple of months, the idea held the promise of providing some good ol' down home Fan fiction angst to be written, so I offered it as an Iron Chef challenge on PPMB. Here was the challenge: write a story - one shot or multi-part - where by some confluence of circumstances, only one parent leaves Highland, TX for Lawndale. You can use illness, death, imprisonment, divorce, etc. as the reason for achieving the goal... hell, you can even combine some of them together, the more the merrier, the angstier (is that even a real word) the better.This story is my humble contribution.