The Whittaker Saga

After her first weekend as a married woman, Grace returns to her job on Monday morning only to be met with a chock. Her main job of the day is to train her replacement! "My what?" she asks her boss, only to be given a surprised look. "You're married now. We assumed..." "Well, you assumed wrong!" But no amount of arguing changes her situation. Might be that there is no formal marriage bar at the firm, but that apparently does not mean that married women are appreciated. "How could you focus at work, while figuring out what to cook for dinner at home?" her boss explains. "Besides, you'd have to leave when you get pregnant anyway." Back home, she tries to get her husband's support, but David just doesn't see the problem. "We really don't need the money," he just says. "You'll never want for anything, I promise. All you ever have to do is ask." Of course, asking is the problem. Grace likes having ...

For Thomas, it's difficult to know that his brother is now going through the same thing he was only a few years ago. He had hoped that the war he fought would be it. That the world wold learn and improve, but instead here they were, at each other's throats again. "At least the US didn't wait to get involved this time," Anna tells him on the phone, though it's a poor comfort when that involvement means the possible loss of his brother. As worried as he is of his brother, however, Thomas is still preoccupied with what is going on back home. Michael is growing so fast. He went from smiling to cooing to laughing, from rolling over to his back, to his stomach to sitting up. Every day something new happens, and Thomas wants to be there for all of it, though his long hours at the hospital keep him away for much of it. Instead it's Betty who gets to be there for most of it. In between cleaning, and cooking and knitting, Michael takes up all of her time. But Thomas...