Starting Over
When Joanie was a teenager, she felt suffocated by her parents’ strict Catholic environment. In the middle of the night, she packed up her things and took a bus from Kansas to Los Angeles. Within a few months, she met the man that would eventually become Steve’s father.
Young and Pregnant
It wasn’t long before Joanie became pregnant out of wedlock. Scared and broke, she returned to Kansas to confess what had happened to her parents. Don and Mary Jane told their daughter that she could continue to live under their roof if she agreed to one thing…