Erin Fredrichs

singles

Alone with her cat Smiley, Allie chats with her boyfriend Mike on the phone about his day at school. She won’t be finishing her freshman year of high school but hopes to go to Tri-County Joint Vocational High School to get her diploma when her baby is old enough for day care. Two days before Christmas 2003, when her size two jeans would no longer button, fifteen-year-old Allie Blake decided to tell her family the secret she kept for the past six months. She was pregnant. No strangers to teenage pregnancy, Allie's grandmother was 17 when her first child was born and Allie's mother was only 16 when she had Allie, the family embraced the unexpected baby as a blessing.
Alone with her cat Smiley, Allie chats with her boyfriend Mike on the phone about his day at school. She won’t be finishing her freshman year of high school but hopes to go to Tri-County Joint Vocational High School to get her diploma when her baby is old enough for day care. Two days before Christmas 2003, when her size two jeans would no longer button, fifteen-year-old Allie Blake decided to tell her family the secret she kept for the past six months. She was pregnant. No strangers to teenage pregnancy, Allie's grandmother was 17 when her first child was born and Allie's mother was only 16 when she had Allie, the family embraced the unexpected baby as a blessing.