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March 16, 2007

Stacy: "This is a New Version!"

“A fine strong girl, ma’am.”

She turned her face away.

“Ain’t no such thing.”

The doctor regarded her impassively. He cut the umbilical cord and gently wrapped the baby in a blanket. He wordlessly handed the infant off to the nurse who would deliver it to the orphanage.

A tall man entered the room and looked at the woman in the bed. Sweat-soaked and disheveled, she’d never been more precious to him. But to give up their child…

“Jane… are you sure about this?”

She knew her own limitations, though.

“Shut the fuck up and get me a whiskey, Bill.”

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Comments

This is actually a Calamity Jane/Bill Hickcok bit of alt mythos if anyone thought I was just concocting a general "calamity" sort of thing, featuring a distant father figure and an alcoholic mother with a foul mouth.

However, on September 6, 1941 the U.S. Department of Public Welfare did grant old age assistance to a Jean Hickok Burkhardt McCormick, who claimed to be the legal offspring of Martha Jane Canary and James Butler Hickok, after being presented with evidence that Calamity Jane and Wild Bill had married at Benson's Landing, Montana Territory on September 25, 1873, documentation being written in a Bible and presumably signed by two reverends and numerous witnesses.

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Posted by: Stacy at March 18, 2007 10:36 PM · Permalink