Part 1, Conception 1985-1993, Chapter 10, Paige Summary

Paige has taken to sending off for travel brochures, as if she wants to run away from the baby growing inside. Paige has a rough time with her pregnancy, especially the third month. As Paige learns about her baby's development at that stage, she can not help remembering the baby she aborted at the same age. Paige had the abortion because she was not ready to be a mother, but she feels she might still not be ready.

Paige goes for a walk and ends up at a cemetery across town. Paige remembers how her mother used to take her to cemeteries when she was a child. Paige's mother, May, wrote obituaries for the Chicago Tribune and would often go to visit the gravestones of the people for whom she wrote these obituaries. May wrote...