Summary

In Chapter 21, the narrator describes how Pete and Liza met at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Liza took Pete to meet her parents on their second date. They began an active sexual relationship on their third date. Her drove her to Clanton to meet his family and see the farm. He told her that he did not intend to be a farmer. He was going to be career military.

Pete had been at Fort Riley in Kansas for officer training only a week when Liza wrote telling him that she was pregnant. Pete borrowed a friend’s car and picked Liza up in Memphis. She called her mother from a pay phone to tell her that she and Pete were eloping. When Joel was born January 4 in Germany, they waited six weeks before they let their parents know the baby had been...