re: What did Billie Joe and the narrator throw off the Tallahatchee Bridge?

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That actually does make more sense. Why would they throw an aborted fetus off of a bridge? They could have just buried it.

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Secret abortions are a trope of Southern Gothic fiction.

Edit: Sling Blade comes to mind, but that was a burial. But still, you talk about two young lovers disposing of something secret and people’s minds will automatically go to an abortion.