Lucinda's Solution by Roman Nancy

Author:Roman, Nancy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

My sister Catherine had seemed to manage her two births just fine, as did my mother. Mother was the person I truly wanted to speak to. But I could not ask these questions with a letter, or over the telephone in the landlord’s apartment. And I could not visit. Not yet.

I went to the library.

I sought out the only woman librarian in all of the New Haven Public Library. I asked in the most discreet and polite voice for a book describing the process of childbirth. She replied, in her most indiscreet impolite voice, that her library did not have any books containing such vulgarity.

I took the children and left. But as I descended the marble steps, Constance’s words stung me more than the librarian’s rude ones. Fight a war with anyone who tells you ‘No.’ I spun around and the children lurched. I walked back into the library. I stood before the librarian. “I would like to point out to you that everyone that has ever lived, everyone you know, even saints such as yourself, was brought into this world by such vulgarity.”

I turned and stomped out, head high and the children doing their best to keep pace with my steps.

On the next block was a doctor’s office.

A woman doctor, unless of course a man had the unfortunate name of Dr. Sarah Howell, M.D., as declared on a small placard on the building.

“What is this place?” asked Jonathan, as I wandered through a dark hall, looking for the correct offices.

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