In Love and Out of Canada

                               Leaving Home Again
    

     Jane was astounded to see Tytherleigh. They made a date to meet that night. And in a few weeks they were enagaged to be married. In April 1962 they were married in an Anglican church in Fredericton.
    "I could have married many other men," Jane told a friend of hers thirty years later. Then why did she marry John the friend asked. "Because he was there," Jane said as she gazed out of the living room of her small house on Vancouver's West side. "and I wanted to escape."
    John had a job with a big engineering firm and was moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Once married, Jane could quit her dead-end job with the advertising firm. She could leave behind Atlantic Canada with its small town ways where everybody knew everyone else.She would move to a land where there was no snow and the sun shone endlessly. Jane maybe was not head over heels in love with John but she knew him and liked to make love to him. "He had a nice thin body back then," Jane recalled to her friend. "And he still seemed to love me."
    Plus she could make love to this young man without fear of getting pregnant and having to get an abortion. Also being with John  wiped out the memories of her ill-fated affair with Don McWilliam. Although she still felt guilty about her abortion she realized that she could never have brought up that child alone.
    "She went to England to get another degree," the gossipers in Fredericton would have said. "But she came back with a child but no husband." And in the end she would have had to leave Fredericton anyway.
    Now in her mid-twenties, Jane was launched into another country, the U.S. of A. Here was this great country just to the south, at one of its greatest moments in history..Its power was immense, its president young, handsome and intelligent, and  married to a woman who looked like a movie star.
    Don drove towards Maine in an old Ford car, a smile on his face. He and his wife were young and passionate about each other and hopeful about the future.As they drove towards the border between Maine and New Brunswick, Jane told her husband, "We're heading into a new world." She was right about that.

            This is the end of Part One of 'The Life of Jane'. Part Two will start up agiain some time in the future.