The Gypsy's Prediction
In the Spring of 1955, a Gypsy family installed itself in an empty store front directly across the street from Saint Anthony's French Canadian Catholic Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As Doris Langlois and her daughter, Elaine were leaving mass, they spotted the new neighbors and got curious.
They crossed the street and talked to one old lady who offered to read their palms and predict their future.
Doris and Elaine were modern women who did not believe in things like Gypsy prophesies, but they decided to try it, just for fun. Elaine's prediction was, of course, "predictable." She would meet a handsome young man, get married and live happily ever after. But Doris' prediction was not "predictable." The Gypsy told her that in six or seven years, she would be taking a long trip to someplace called Baltimore, where she would meet her first grandchild.
Elaine's sister was only two years old, and in seven years could not become a mother. Elaine had a boyfriend who was in the Air Force, stationed in Europe. He would not be home for two years, and they really had not decided if they wanted to get married. Besides, Doris and Elaine had no idea where Baltimore was. Somewhere down south, over the Mason Dixon Line. Elaine and her mother had a great laugh over this prediction, told some friends, and then forgot about it for a long time.
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