User:Phil5591/Victor Kelli

Birth and Early Life
Victor Christian Kelli was born Christmas Day, 1911, to Alastair and Una Kelli, Scottish immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio. The two had one other son, Vincent, who was two years older than Victor. Victor and his family were very poor, and lived in a two room flat near one of the city's coal mines. Victor's father, Alastair died from black lung when Victor was only ten.

The next few years were the toughest years of his life. Less than a year later, his mother Una, died from grief of her husbands death. From that point on Vincent took care of Victor. For six years, the brother's took care of each other while they were forced to live on the streets. Both dropped out of school, to pursue small short lived jobs around the city. In those six years, Victor worked as a paperboy, blacksmith, coal miner, and when he was twelve, a cirus performer. Spending so long on the streets with no real home, and no parents was extremly hard on both of the brother's, but by leaning on each other they got through it.

When Vincent turned eighteen he joined the Air Force to become a pilot. Seeing his older brother start to build a life, Victor wanted to build his own. After months of thinking, Victor moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, a booming city far away from the hell he had come to know as Cincinnati.

A New Life
Only sixteen when Victor got to Bridgeport, he was still unsure of what he really wanted to do with himself. Victor spent his nights sleeping on park benchs, and the days downtown, pickpocketing shoppers, so he could buy himself a meal or two. Then one day in June, Victor was almost arrested by police for numerous small offenses. From that time on he decided to buckle down, and get a job. Victor's first job was a waitor at a sidewalk cafe in downtown Bridgeport. The cafe was a cheap Italian restuarant. Victor couldn't stand the job because of his boss, Alexandro Marino, an Italian immigrant straight from Naples. He was snobbish and rude to lowlifes such as Victor, but Vistor needed a job so he stayed. Eventually, the job paid off in a way Victor didn't imagine it would. One day about two months after he took the job, Victor met a beautiful young woman dining in the cafe. Her name was Patricia Ford. After he brought her food over, they started talking, and soon Victor found himself sitting down with her, and they enjoyed a lovely lunch together. But when Marino found out that Victor was on a date, when he was working, he immediately fired Victor. Victor met up with Patricia on numorous occasions during the next few months and soon they fell in love. But, Victor was only seventeen, and Patricia only sixteen. Patricia stopped the relationship in early December of the same year, saying that she needed to focus more on schoolwork, but if they meet agian. ..