亲历历史：希拉里回忆录：阿肯色之行首次见到比尔母亲(1)

Hot Springs was Virginia Cassidy Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley's natural element. Bill's mother was raised in nearby Hope, eighty miles to the southwest. During World War II she attended nursing school in Louisiana, and that's where she met her first husband, William Jefferson Blythe.

从欧洲回国后不久，比尔又带我踏上另外一个旅程——回他的老家。

After the war, they moved to Chicago and lived on the North Side, not far from where my parents were living. When Virginia became pregnant with Bill, she went home to Hope to wait for the baby. Her husband was driving down to see her when he had a fatal accident in Missouri in May of 1946. Virginia was a twenty-three-year-old widow when Bill was born on August 19, 1946. She decided to go to New Orleans to train to become a nurse anesthetist because she knew she could make more money that way to support herself and her new son. She left Bill in the care of her mother and father, and when she got her degree, she returned to Hope to practice.

6月底一个明亮的夏日之晨，比尔开车到小石城机场接我。我们开车穿过木兰树点缀的阿肯色河峡谷，进入沃希托山脉，一路走走停停，有时停在观景台，有时下车看看乡村商店，比尔借此机会让我认识他喜欢的人与景点。直到薄暮将至，两人才到达温泉市。