After the Story - Choices Like Rivers Episode 3

After the Story - Choices Like Rivers Episode 3

This podcast discusses each chapter of Choices Like Rivers and each episode is posted directly after the book episode. This corresponds to Chapter 2 Section 2.

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We know that Sharon was pregnant in the last section. We are yet to see how she breaks the news to her parents and what happens from there.

But here we get the feeling that there is not child in Sharon’s life and that there is an emptiness because of it.

Anyone would be concerned about a supposedly lost child. They would immediately want to find her parents, which the policemen at the stations did. They did as much as they could.

Remember this is a day and time when agencies did not communicate with each other and after all the search radius was only as big as a small girl could walk, right?

Molly Sue was very well behaved, and even though she wasn’t a fearful child, there were certain new things that startled her such as boys on bikes and the loud Cobra II car engine.

We don’t know at this point what Molly Sue’s life was like. We don’t know what she experienced or what she does and does not know.

Sharon is struggling. She feels as though a beautiful child has dropped into her life. She is eager to ‘play dress-up’ with this beautiful girl.

Her conscience tugs at her reminding her that this is not her child, but she tells herself that it will be okay, that she will keep herself in check.

I put salary amounts, and cost of the clothing in the story as a reminder of what the time was really like.

In June of 1978 I was married with one baby and one on the way. The small dry good store in town would charge to those they knew would pay their bills, only jotting down the charge on a tablet or ledger behind the counter.

If your word was good it carried a lot of weight back then. As it was often said, “you are only as good as your word”.

Of course online banking and having debit cards was way in the distant future and you did your banking in person from 9 - 3. Yes, the bank always closed at 3. I did’t know why.

We don’t yet know why Sharon was at the police station, but we assume she works there, not as a police - person, because in a small town then no one even considered a woman as a police - person.

Some looming questions are why can’t Molly Sue lead them to her mother? Why is she in only a pillowcase for a dress? Why is her hair disheveled with bark and leaves in it?

And why does she feel so comfortable with Sharon?

As the story unfolds all these questions will be answered in time. In the meantime, Sharon is in heaven playing mother to this little lost child whose demeanor is so sweet and precious.

But, what happened to the baby that Sharon was pregnant with? Let’s find out next.

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