Which turns out to be a hoax. There were several pregnant girls, and this guidance counselor or principal, I forget which, told the media they’d made a pact, and that was the first the girls had heard of it. The counselor/principal was fired.

You want to hear something really ironic. I knew a girl in High School, got pregnant and back then (1983) was sent to “Pregnant high school” in Texas until she delivered. They had that at some church. She gave the baby up for adoption. Little girl.

Giselle, my friend, missed her daughter and thought of her a lot. She eventually married a very religious man and had two very beautiful children. She even home schooled her kids.

Giselle became very, very religious. And she took on some very opposing views of homosexuality.

Irony is, she and her daughter were reunited some 5 years ago. The daughter grew up and had a good life. But, she is a Lesbian.

Giselle had to do some major soul searching and via the last letter from her she said that she and the woman were working on some kind of relationship, but Giselle was having a hard time overcoming her predjudices.

Sad story to me.

I think the baby is Peggy’s. Too much camera time devoted to him. It would be a major joke on us if it isn’t.

You know what is really funny? My parents had the same set of glassware that the Drapers have. You know the ones with the gold leaves?

They played cards with the neighbors on Saturday nights, too, and yes, I did play bartender! Their game was Canasta.

Maybe I’m all wrong about this. Maybe the baby is Anita’s and Peggy can’t relate to him because her baby, which was adopted out, is gone and she can’t come to terms with what has happened. It’s all too much.

It’s not like you ever forget about a child who was adopted. I was an unmarried teenager whose baby was adopted and I had to keep it a secret. I think about him and pray for him and his life every day. It was forty years last February.

I’m not obsessed about it and I have another son now, but there are still some tears from time to time, especially birthdays and holidays, and when people my age show me pictures of their grandchildren.

I never say I gave him up. I gave him a family and that was the best that I could do as his mother.

Maybe I see too much of myself in Peggy. I didn’t deny my pregnancy as long as she did, but my friends did drag my to a doctor despite my insistence that it couldn’t be true and I was about four months along. I was hidden away and afterwards I was told to pretend it never happened.

Matt Weiner has made me think about things that are difficult and challenging to me in a very personal way. It’s OK. It’s part of who I am.

I don’t know if the baby in the family is Peggy’s or not, but there’s something I understand about the character. I’ll be watching to see what happens next.

LOL, B. You rock! Absolutely LOL about the “clean my pipes” line.

I don’t think I’m missing anything. I’m assuming something not shown–the fact that he was invited to the Olson’s for lunch meant they had some contact with him prior to him showing up on their doorstep. He would have had the chance to get the download on the family from the Monsignor or another priest who had been at the parish. It’s possible he may have accepted the Olson’s invitation out of many invitations from families to host the new priest for Sunday lunch BECAUSE of the fact that they were struggling with a wayward daughter.

You are right–he woudn’t necessarily know where the cemetary was unless there had been a funeral or some discussion of it, but there was certainly opportunity for him to get background information on the Olsons.

All of that assumes that they had sought baptism or in some way shared the Peggy situation with the church, which in that time would have been plausible. Infants had to be baptized right away, and Peggy may have been urged to go to Confession after they found out about her baby.

He thinks everyone should move on, starting with themselves.

Sal’s description of the ad: “Everything’s … fine.” He looks like he was on the plane that moment. It was the least convincing, least confident pitch ever.

While somewhat perjorative, the term wasn’t meant in a gender-bias way. More in the spirit of the overall post. Not meant to offend.

portias, I’m standing by my belief that Gil isn’t in on the community grapevine. I don’t think we get shown a gaffe like his about Green-wood just for laughs, it’s meant to be illustrative.