Bridie

But when I sat and talked with her afterwards, after, I suppose, the initial anger set aside, she said to me, what would I be?

I couldn't be her mother.

Would I be her auntie, her sister, her cousin?

Yeah, what would she have ended up being for her or to her like?

She said, I want her to have a good life, Bridie, and to have everything that I couldn't give her.

They were going together for a good while and he was down in Killala and he was going into the house and he said to me that, you know, he said, it'll never work, Brodie.

It'll never work between us.

And I wanted to, he said, I desperately wanted to, he said, and I know Sandra does, but he said it'll never work because of Anne.

That was the way it was and he wanted her to move out.

after she had the baby and that he offered her a life and a house and, you know, that they could make a go of it.

And he told me that.

And then I asked Sandra, I said, how come you didn't?

And she said, there's a bit of a difference, Bridie.

And I said, what?

She said, there's a difference in being in love and not being in love.

I'm not in love with him, she said.

When she brought her home from the hospital, she was in the house with Anne and that.

And we'd be going up and down and visiting.

And then she was saying to me that, you know, babies cry.

It's what they do like.