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Mary has been at St. Saviours home for mothers and babies for six weeks. Despite being seven months pregnant, she is hatching a plan of how to keep her baby, even though she is unmarried. She has seen an advertisement in The Lady magazine and wants to apply to be a housekeeper for an elderly lady in Eastbourne. Naively, she believes that she will be able to work with a newborn child, and that her new employer would accept the situation. However, this is 1964, and Matron knows she must make Mary
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START: MATRON. Come.
MATRON snaps the compact shut. Enter MARY, clutching a copy of The Lady magazine and a letter.
MARY. Matron?
MATRON. Mary?
[... …]
END: MATRON. And what would that do to your mother?
MARY puts the telephone down.
I met a lady and gentlemen last week. Beautiful house on the coast. Desperate for a child of their own. After ten years, they say the hardest thing is losing hope.
Amanda Whittington, Be My Baby, Nick Hern Books, 2014, pp.28-32.
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