The Bus Bench

Edna Rollins is adopted at age six by her aunt Lilly who raises her in a sheltered environment creating a young lady that is socially naïve' and unworldly. Lilly's shunning of men exacerbates Edna's beliefs, one of which is that only married girls have babies. Lilly's declining health and refusal to seek medical care eventually brings about her demise which happens on Edna's high school graduation night. Edna returns to find Lilly has passed which plunges her into a state of panic and utter...