1) The Honeymoon Sweet- Sure they were a crazy bunch. Why in their right minds would Mike and Carol bring along all their children on their honeymoon? Wouldn't they want to spend it alone, to be intimate? Truth is, they found a way. All the kids finally went to sleep around three in the morning. Little Cindy snuggled in between the newlyweds. Carol had reached over her daughter and grabbed her husband's hand while they, too had finally drifted off into a peaceful sleep. They woke up to each other still holding hands.
2) All Dogs (and cats) Go To Heaven- Fluffy was a tired old cat by the time Mike and Carol had wed. She stayed with Carol's mom and dad because they figured Tiger would do nothing but torture her. The girls got word of their beloved cat's death after the family's first camping trip. Tiger would follow in just a few short years of natural causes, on the anniversary of Fluffy's death.
3) Photograph- Bobby did keep that picture of his mother. It was kept put away in the drawer. The night Carol had talked him out of running away on her, she crept into the boys room to check on him. Carol's heart broke as she caught a glimpse of Bobby crying into his mother's face in the frame.
"I'm sorry, baby," Carol whispered, choked with tears. Bobby never saw or heard Carol in that moment.
4) Daddy's Little Girl- Cindy also kept a picture of her daddy in a safe place and Mike never knew it. Kitty Karry-All had a little gold locket around her neck sometimes whenever Cindy felt like putting it on her.
"She wants to feel special today, daddy," little Cindy would say.
Mike thought nothing of it at the time. When Cindy became a teenager, he was helping Carol and Alice put away old things of hers when stumbled across her favorite doll with her locket mysteriously opened up. He saw there was a picture of a man holding a baby. He gasped when the locket stated: 2/17/63, Cindy's birthday. The baby in the picture was her and the man was her birth father.
5) Old Maid- Alice always felt stuck in her life. She always put on a happy face and sharp wit to try and hide it. Her only love in her adult life was Sam, the butcher who would rather give it up to his bowling ball most nights than her. She loved her job and the children but she yearned for a family of her own. She would look at Mrs. Brady with some jealousy. Carol was living the life had always wanted.
6) Some Will Win, Some Will Lose- Jealosuy was almost the name of the game when it came to Marcia and Jan's relationship. Jan was almost always vocal about her frustrations with being in her sister's shadow. Marcia would never admit that sometimes she was jealous of Jan. She never really knew how this came about, but Marcia always felt a pressure of being the golden girl from the time she could remember. Jan was allowed to fall on her face sometimes and she wasn't. Marcia often wondered how much freedom there was in having nothing to lose.