Francine's Foibles

She's given up hope. He never had any. Will they find it together?



World War II is finally over, and America is extra grateful as the country approaches this year's Thanksgiving. But for Francine life hasn't changed. Despite working at Fort Meade processing the paperwork for the thousands of men who have returned home, she's still lonely and very single. Is she destined for spinsterhood?



Grateful that his parents anglicized the family surname after emigrating to the United States after the Great War, first-generation German-American Ray Fisher has done all he can to hide his heritage. He managed to make it through this second "war to end all wars," but what American woman would want to marry into a German family? Must he leave the country to find wedded bliss?