Lynn's Comments: Lynn Lake was such a small town that gossip came back to you the same day. It was fun to hear the latest community news, as long as you weren't part of it! Here's an example of how fast word travelled: Annette was one of our dental assistants. She was expecting her first baby and when she went into labor, I knew she had been admitted to the hospital because when I went to buy groceries, I ran into a guy who knew her husband.
A few minutes later, I went to the drugstore to buy her a gift and I ran into the doctor's wife who told me Annette and Peter had just had a baby boy. I went home, wrapped the gift, walked to the hospital and there were the proud parents holding a baby so new, he hadn't even been washed yet!
I guess there's a difference between news and gossip, and it didn't take me long to learn that in a small town, you had to be careful with both.
