An Episode of the Helen story that had been forgotten by me!

Here is the link, and I'll explain below:

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This is a 'page' on the Blog.  It is set at the time Helen had had her most recent, and most invasive, brain surgery, and had returned home with Maryssa, to the Primrose house (Maryssa's family home, from where they would move to the new, rented home near where Lalitha's family, and the instrument factory were situated).

I was just reading this page this morning, and I was startled at how well I had been writing at that time.  Many of the characters are illuminated beautifully by this episode, but I'm a little nervous about slicing it into one of the other stories, for fear of having to do some lengthy inspections, to avoid duplication, etc.  The painfully slow steps Helen took to become a functional adult again have been glossed over in Concerto.  This episode also highlights how Erin struggled with Helen's nemory loss.

A Scene from "On the Run!"

This weekend I ran out of stuff to read, so I re-read Helen On the Run, and I concluded that it must be awfully confusing, because there were so many plot lines being interwoven!

Firstly, Helen is trying to avoid being caught by the FBI, because she had picked up her two adopted daughters, and made a run for it. 

Secondly, she met up with a mother and daughter couple, soon after she had left home to go into hiding, and they wanted to come along with Helen and the little girls!  The daughter is Erin, who figures in all future stories. 

Thirdly, Helen is pregnant with a baby.  The baby's father is Geoffrey Gibson, a musician, and a recurring character.  Geoffrey keeps pestering Helen to marry him, but of course she,  being a lesbian, isn't going to. 

Fourthly, while in hiding, Helen disguises herself as a man, and takes up a job as a construction worker.  One of her co-workers—a woman—has a daughter in high school.  Helen is invited to their home, and the daughter falls in love with Helen.

Fifthly, Helen and company have to go underground again, because one of their party,  Michelle, is caught by the FBI.  They wind up in the vicinity of St. Paul, and Helen and Erin's mother get jobs at a private boarding school. 

Finally, Helen begins to show, and she's taken to an obstetrician, where Helen is declared to be high-risk.

There are at least four more threads, having to do with Helen's work at the school, and the teachers, and the principal, and the music in the school chapel on the weekends.  I must have been mad when I wrote the story, but it seemed very plausible to me at the time!

Well.  I had to get that off my chest. 

Kay.