FOREVER CHANGED

CHAPTER 27

EPILOGUE 4

DARREL CURTIS AND MAGGIE WILSON

Darry and Maggie were married in the summer of 1967, right before Soda and Steve left for boot camp. It was a large, lavish wedding…something Maggie and Darry didn't necessarily want, but something Mrs. Wilson wanted to do for her only surviving child.

Darry got along very well with his in-laws, they accepted him for who he was and didn't look down upon him because he came from a poor family. Mr. Wilson offered Darry an office position at his company, but Darry declined…he had dreams of starting his own business, Curtis construction.

The couples first child, Darrel Curtis III, was born about a year after the couple was married. With a new baby, Pony still in high school, Johnny, and Soda coming home from the war, their house had now become very crowded…but it wasn't that way for long.

Soda and Sandy got married and moved into the house next door and Ponyboy went off to the University of Oklahoma after that summer….and not a moment too soon. In October of 1970 Maggie gave birth to their second child, Peter John…affectionately named after Maggie's late brother, and Johnny.

The couple worked hard raising their family, and putting two boys through college….Ponyboy was lucky enough to have received scholarships for full tuition, but there were still other expenses like room and board, books, supplies etc, and Johnny's college correspondence classes were costly too, not to mention the ever increasing cost of his care. As soon as Johnny turned eighteen, the state stopped sending foster care checks….but because of his injuries, he was able to collect a moderately summed disability check.

With a lot of hard work and determination…and a little help from his father-in-law, business partner, and brothers, in 1973 Darry's dream was realized…he started his own construction company. This company was the first of it's kind and changed the lives of many, many people.…for the better.

Maggie and Darry welcomed one more child into the family, in April 1974 Lauren Elizabeth was born….the apple of her Daddy's eye. Ponyboy moved out the following year, finding a place of his own…right down the street. Johnny stayed with the family until late 1978, when he moved into an assisted living facility.

Darry still works, today he is the CEO of his company…and multimillion dollar corporation. With their good fortune, the couple added an entire wing to the hospital…The Curtis Burn Care Center. Lauren works as charge nurse on floor five, the critical care unit…under the leadership of the center's head nurse…her mother, Maggie.

Darrel and Pete the couples oldest sons, work with their father at the construction company. Darrel is married with two sons DJ (Darrel John)17 and Andrew 14, both boys are in high school, now. Pete is engaged to his second wife, he has no children. Lauren is married with four children; Kelsey 9, Thomas 8, Hannah 5 and Jordyn 2.

The Curtis' still live on the same block, in the same house. The neighborhood has changed from poor and run down, to upper middle-class and pristine. There are no longer any social boundaries between the north side and south side's of town.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: I know it's short, but I want the Curtis' to be done separately…ending with Johnny's, who's epilogue will probably be the longest. Sorry about Steve in the last chapter, I just felt that life couldn't be perfect for all of them.

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