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In a world where the nuclear family is considered to be a husband, wife, and two kids in a house with a white picket fence, Bridgette Pearce’s childhood was anything but that Norman Rockwellian image. She was the only child of a woman who bore her as a single, unwed, seventeen-year-old child herself. The boy in the equation was nonexistent in Jeannie Allan’s life and in her daughter Bridgette’s, a...
In a world where the nuclear family is considered to be a husband, wife, and two kids in a house with a white picket fence, Bridgette Pearce’s childhood was anything but that Norman Rockwellian image. She was the only child of a woman who bore her as a single, unwed, seventeen-year-old child herself. The boy in the equation was nonexistent in Jeannie Allan’s life and in her daughter Bridgette’s, a...
