When his natural mother (Deidra Rose) died of a brain aneurism when Dean had turned three years old, Tindle Nelson came to Edmond’s rescue; a single, twenty-four-year-old Christian with angelic ways and soft hands. Not only did she help Edmond and Dean after Deidra Rose’s death, raising the baby as if he were her own, she had also taken over Edmond’s everything, providing the man with hot cooked meals, cleaning his house, washing his monkey suit for his use at the garage, making sure that his bills were paid, buying groceries, and other whatnots in a well-functioning household. After two years of acting like Edmond’s wife, Tindle became his wife, and Dean’s step-mother; the only mother that he could remember, cared for by. He loved Tindle, and vice versa, and the two lived a happy, unevent
