Against All Odds: the Story of Elinor Powel and Frederick Albert
Copyright© 2025 by Megumi Kashuahara
Chapter 8: Alone
Elinor returned to Milton pregnant and alone.
Her mother’s face when she told her—not just pregnant, but pregnant by a German soldier, a prisoner of war, a white man—was something Elinor would never forget.
“What were you thinking?” her mother had asked, her voice a mixture of anger and fear. “Do you understand what this means? What people will say? What they’ll do?”
“I love him, Mama,” Elinor said simply. “And he loves me. And nothing else matters.”
But of course, everything else mattered. In 1945 America, everything else mattered very much.
The months crawled by. Letters from Frederick came sporadically from Germany, censored and brief, but filled with longing. He was trying, he wrote. Trying to find a way back. Trying to navigate the bureaucracy of two nations that had no interest in facilitating their reunion.
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