Hearts, Minds and Souls.

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es. She cast a glance at the baby who was sleeping peacefully in her ar

rable, she though

icant, she muttered under her breath as she watched two happy new mothers chatter like birds. Becka glanced at her side. The woman whose bed was beside

le Alexandra Tracey and to her it was like she was going to die. Nobody had been there to reassure her that everything was going to be okay; and the nurses didn't do anything o

ith her older brother, Harry and his wife, Rita. Her parents were at Bax City, Mom, a nurse and Dad, a military officer, had been fed up of her promiscuous lifestyle- she smoked, drank, cussed, had several boyfriends and both of them couldn't control her. Her older brother had told them that she should come to Noby City to live with him and his wif

or how exactly she should start from. She had dropped out of senior high a year ago. I don't know if I'll ever go back to school ag

e thought,

iscuous as she was. All of her friends didn't like to run into her, and when they did, they either turned away, or said a qu

Inferior?!, he

see, I know how it is to have a baby at your age. Besides, I know you. I'm the cashier at the departmental store down the road". Yes! Becka often visited the store to get some cigarettes, beers, and tobacco for her brother and sometimes, for herself. Becka suddenly burst into tears and babbled out to the woman how she felt. She could take it in no longer. "It's okay."th

ka asked herself.

s reading. Becka put her baby into the crib beside her bed, lay down on her bed, pulled the

the women would notice and start asking questions. She went down the stairs slowly and out to the road. She stood and then remembered that her brother didn't give her some money to board a taxi. She sw