I'll Stand By You
“She didn’t remember what she’d been dreaming, but it didn’t matter. Her reality was explanation enough.
She rolled over onto her side and got up quietly, so as not to wake up the baby, then darted across the hall to the bathroom and back again before she got caught in the hall in her nightgown. Once inside her room, she began sifting through her new clothes to find something to wear and settled on another clean shirt and jeans. Sometime today, she’d do laundry again.
She could smell cof...fee brewing as she dressed and knew Johnny was up. She didn’t know what the Sunday routine was in this house, but she remembered hers.
Sunday breakfast was usually pancakes, then getting ready for church and listening to Granddaddy singing “The Old Rugged Cross” as he shaved.
And bracing herself to show up in church as the unwed mother she was, putting up with a combination of overdone pity or disdain.MoreLess
She rolled over onto her side and got up quietly, so as not to wake up the baby, then darted across the hall to the bathroom and back again before she got caught in the hall in her nightgown. Once inside her room, she began sifting through her new clothes to find something to wear and settled on another clean shirt and jeans. Sometime today, she’d do laundry again.
She could smell cof...fee brewing as she dressed and knew Johnny was up. She didn’t know what the Sunday routine was in this house, but she remembered hers.
Sunday breakfast was usually pancakes, then getting ready for church and listening to Granddaddy singing “The Old Rugged Cross” as he shaved.
And bracing herself to show up in church as the unwed mother she was, putting up with a combination of overdone pity or disdain.MoreLess
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