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I'm working on my first revision. Boy, what a mess. Below is a paragraph that is backstory. I know it's all telling, and no showing. I need ideas on how to change this. Is there anyone willing to try?

         Eddy had met Carol at the race track in Crossville when he was twenty and she was barely sixteen. Before four months had passed, Carol was pregnant with Jolene. He knew he had to marry her eventually, so he quit the job he had in his hometown, Grimsley, and started working at the lumber mill in Pikeville. His father wasn’t happy with the arrangement. It was nearly a three-hour drive from Grimsley south to Pikeville. Mr. Bowen wasn’t about to go down there just to see his son. The relationship between the two men shriveled to greeting cards at Christmas time. Four months into the pregnancy, Eddy had found the house they had been living in ever since.



~ Glynis