By a Flared Nostril
by Molly Bass
Rita Faye Hayes is a young schoolteacher in North Carolina. Sam John Hickman is a young musician who works in a record store and plays with a band with dreams of stardom. They meet, fall in love, get married; the the "fun" begins. Plagued by well-meaning friends who offer advice ad nauseam, incompetent health care professionals who increase rather than assuage their angst, Sam and Rita embark on the adventure of their lives - having a baby and then raising him. They discover that once a child enters their lives, they are changed forever - for the better and the worse. It is a venture into the unknown and they, like all new parents, find that nothing is expected and almost everything is overwhelming. Watch them and laugh and cry as they stumble their way through parenthood from morning sickness to sending a son who has grown up too fast off to college.
