Miss Fidelity was the only adult who lived in Fork in the Road with more than an eighth grade education. She was our school marm, our Sunday school teacher and the moral standard all of us lesser mortals strove for.

She loved to pull out her map and tell us stories about all the places in the United States she had traveled and how she believed Oklahoma was pretty near the center of God’s universe, and how we ought to be thankful that's where we were born. I never did ask her how dust storms, tornadoes and horseflies fit into the picture.

She was second cousin to Shirlene, Earlene and Maybelle Tibbetts and was as different from them as night is from day. Folks looked up to her but they still loved to whisper behind her back, calling her frigid, just plain baffled how she could get by without cussing or drinking or smoking.

 Lil' Fran

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