Polly Chalmers

Polly Chalmers’s arthritis isn’t gettin any better—in fact, it’s gettin worse, a little at a time—and she may not get over it, but she’ll learn to live with it. Millions have.

Polly’s arthritis is worsening. The narrator treats her illness as one of the town’s ongoing troubles.

Polly stands outside admiring and questioning the new shop’s awning. This passage supplies her sewing-shop occupation.

“I’ve seen him around town, and his wife comes into the shop once in awhile, but I’ve never spoken to him.” The shop was You Sew and Sew, owned and operated by a woman named Polly Chalmers. Annie Pangborn had worked there part-time for four years. Alan thought about it.

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Next to it, Polly Chalmers was sweeping her walk and talking to Alan Pangborn, the county sheriff. She looked young and fresh with her hair pulled back in a horsetail; he looked young and heroic in his neatly pressed uniform.

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