NEW LIFE BEGINS

She went to a moving picture studio and got a job as a stenographer. She made $25 a week, and got a small room in a rooming house in Santa Monica. By the end of the year, she got a Model T and learned to drive. She saved a lot of money. She even helped the woman with the rooming house by cooking supper and washing dishes, something she would never would do if she were married to Cal.

One morning, she woke up feeling ill. She usually liked the smell of the breakfast but she couldn't contain herself and opened the window and vomited. The feeling continued for several days.

Rose decided to go the doctor to find out what the mysterious illness was. After an examination, the doctor told her the news, "You are with child". Rose fainted in the room and the doctor had to get smelling salts.

"Where is your husband?" asked the doctor

"Dead!", cried Rose, "About 2 months ago in a tragic accident!"

"Where is his family?" the doctor asked

"I'm not sure, he didn't have much family!" Rose responded, still crying.

"Your mother or father?" asked the doctor.

"They died also, I am the only one left!", Rose said.

"But I do have a friend to take care of me at the boardin' house." Rose said.

After the doctor said that the baby was due on January 15, Rose walked out of the doctor's office. She realized that Jack was still with her, only spiritually.

Rose patted her tummy lightly, "Jack, you are with me still, I will never let!" she said to herself.

Rose walked home and told the woman running the house, "I will take care of you as if you are my own."

Rose went to her room and remembered back to that night that she and Jack made love in the Renault. She began to cry.

She said to her self, "I am going to be a success. I will raise this child and tell him about his or her wonderful father. I would never would have done it if it hadn't been for Jack."

Rose thought, "If Jack were alive, we would be married and have a house overlooking the ocean."