Keeping Her Secret
Alvera Rita asked her daughter to keep her secret until her death. Gail kept her mother’s secret for seventeen years. She never told anyone about her mother’s past. Gail tried asking Alvera Rita about her past on several occasions after she first learned about her mother’s secret. However, she would immediately change the subject and ask Gail about her life instead. She refused to talk about it ever again, although Gail realized one important thing from her mother’s story.