Nantucket Sisters
“She must buy baby books. See a doctor. Talk with Clarice. She hopes Clarice will understand if she moves back to the farm when she has her baby. Maggie will need Frances then as she’s never needed her before. Clarice is getting around fairly well these days.She adds to her list: tell friends. Ha, won’t they be shocked! Boring old Maggie who does nothing but clean houses and write. Check out the thrift shop for secondhand maternity outfits, although she won’t need those for months. And baby clot...hes? Baby furniture? She is so unprepared.A vision of a baby snugly tucked into a carrier on Maggie’s bosom blossoms in her inner vision, and happiness washes through her blood. This baby will have everything—a family to love it, and this magical island floating in the sea, with its shorebirds and seals and shells and ferries, its sailboats and tugboats and fields of wildflowers, its picture book town with—A cry shatters her thoughts.And then, a heartrending howl.Frances!Maggie runs down the stairs and into the kitchen.MoreLess
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