Lela

Reba was a wonderful mother After her husband died she had raised her five children with her limited resources and some help from her sister and brother in law who were childless When the youngest child was nine years old she saw her mother murdered Three men raped and murdered her mother All three of the men were prominent citizens One of them was even the sheriff When they realized the woman was dead the men sobered up They agreed it had been an accident an unfortunate accident The woman shouldn t have had her dress up showing her white little ass as she urinated there in the woods where she had been picking blackberries They became concerned with trying to protect themselves and their families When they found out the little girl had seen them they became obsessed with trying to stay out of her sight The child ran into each of the men Each time she identified one of the men as her mother s murderer she was told she was wrong The men were family men They were prominent citizens The uncle and aunt took the children to raise After the child kept insisting she had identified the men correctly the uncle got a detective to investigate the case The detective was murdered The death was investigated by the sheriff and declared an accident The child entered her teens and her mother s death had still not been avenged The system had let her down She felt unbearable guilt that she hadn t somehow been able to stop her mother from being murdered When she was fifteen years old she began taking the punishment of her mother s murderers into her own hands Over several years the three men died Each time she was present After the death of the last man she collapsed mentally The aunt and uncle realized she had been responsible for the deaths of her mother s murderers The girl had fallen in love with one of the men s sons It was never to be The girl s mind became that of the child she used to be The aunt and uncle lived life day by day hoping she would ne