...is unable to shield Brigid from a ravaging stranger, a man nearly twice her age, who uses the young girl’s desperate desire for love to seduce her.Once she learns her daughter is pregnant, as if tempting fate, Rosemary suffers a final altercation. She sends Brigid away while secretly condemning her husband to prison.Rosemary’s scheme was to save Brigid from a pitiless society that oppressed unwed mothers during the early days of the 1900s. But she frightens her in the process. As a result, vestiges of her fear and caution keeps her desire for a husband perpetually fettered--- and then each time she is ready to fall in love, fate intervenes.
...is unable to shield Brigid from a ravaging stranger, a man nearly twice her age, who uses the young girl’s desperate desire for love to seduce her.Once she learns her daughter is pregnant, as if tempting fate, Rosemary suffers a final altercation. She sends Brigid away while secretly condemning her husband to prison.Rosemary’s scheme was to save Brigid from a pitiless society that oppressed unwed mothers during the early days of the 1900s. But she frightens her in the process. As a result, vestiges of her fear and caution keeps her desire for a husband perpetually fettered--- and then each time she is ready to fall in love, fate intervenes.
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