She is at UT Tyler, second year of a nursing program, and she is going to be extremely good at it.

I pay for it.

That took nine months of arguing and one very hard conversation with Vesta Odom, because Nita would not take it and I kept offering it wrong.

What finally worked was Vesta, who said to her granddaughter in front of me: “Baby, he is not paying you for what you did.

If he tries that I’ll put him out of my house.

“He is doing what a grown man is supposed to do when a child in his family gets hurt, which is take care of it and not make it complicated.