![]() Joan doesn’t immediately fall in love with her new home, which reminds her a bit of a feudal state. Tired of city life and the unceasing tumult of national news, Joan agrees, despite her best friend warning her against becoming a small-town baby-making machine. Deck also promises that the local paper will be thrilled not only to hire her but to give her a reporter’s byline too. His father is Lilydale’s mayor, and his political influence could help Deck evade the Vietnam draft. After a violent mugging comes on the heels of a lost, longed-for promotion at work, Joan is willing to listen when Deck suggests moving their growing little family back to Lilydale, his hometown. She certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with handsome, square-seeming Deck Schmidt, or to become pregnant less than a year after meeting him. ![]() Living in the city of Minneapolis, she believed herself to be the epitome of the liberated young woman, after a peripatetic youth with her fiercely loving if secretive and now-deceased mother. ![]() 1968 was a tumultuous year for America, and especially so for Joan Harken, aspiring reporter. ![]()
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