IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE
She couldn't be pregnant. They had been married for twelve years, twelve whole years. She was thirty-six years old. Who ever heard of a couple being married that long and a woman being that old and having a first child. Martha had been born just thirty-five years after the Civil War. She had lived through so much change in her life and the great depression was no fun trip and now she is pregnant. There was no mistaking the fact that at breakfast this morning there was movement in her stomach... Sign in to see full entry.