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Gails marriage is shaken when the daughter she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago reenters her life.
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Adoption--Fiction, Mother and child--Fiction, Marriage--Fiction, Christian life--Fiction, Christian fiction.
publication date
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1990
lcc
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PS3555.V26L54 1990eb
ddc
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813/.54
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Adoption--Fiction, Mother and child--Fiction, Marriage--Fiction, Christian life--Fiction, Christian fiction.
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A Life Apart
Shirlee Evans
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Evans, Shirlee, 193l A life apart / Shirlee Evans. p. cm. Summary: Gail's marriage is shaken when the daughter she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago reenters her life. Sequel to "A Life In Her Hands." ISBN 0-8361-3536-9 [1. AdoptionFiction. 2. Mother and childFiction. 3. MarriageFiction. 4. Christian lifeFiction.] I. Title. PS3555.V26L54 1990 813'.54dc20 [Fic] 90-42762 CIP AC
A LIFE APART
Copyright 1990 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 90-42762 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3536-9 Printed in the United States of America Design by Merrill Miller/Cover art by Roger Cooke
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Contents
1. Listen to Me!
7
2. Outmaneuvered
17
3. Unreasoning Anger
28
4. God-acquitted, Self-accused
40
5. Good News?
51
6. A Sister Discovered
62
7. Face-to-Face
72
8. General Knowledge
83
9. Off Alone
95
10. A Plea for Help
107
11. Confrontation
117
12. Haunted Hurts
126
13. When Children Lead
137
14. Soured Celebration
146
15. Three Under the Roof
156
16. New Relationships
166
The Author
174
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To all who asked: Whatever became of Gail and her baby?
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1 Listen to Me!
"What do you mean, it's fine with you?" Gail Lorring demanded as she stood at the kitchen island stove top in her husband's fire-red robe, sleeves rolled to her elbows. In one hand she held a spatula, in the other a pot holder.
Tilting her head to one side, she lifted a shoulder to her cheek to brush back the thick blunt-cut chestnut hair. She flopped a slightly mangled over-easy egg onto a plate beside two limp wedges of pale toast, then stepped around the counter to where Brad stood adjusting his tie.
"I don't want my mother living close to us. I don't want her influencing our sons, hurting them the way she hurt me while I was growing up. Can't you understand that?"
Brad shook his head as he spun a low-backed bar stool around and sat at the counter. His reddish gold hair was rumpled from running his fingers through it
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as though trying to strain out his wife's heated words. "No. I don't understand."
Gail slammed the plate down. She glared at the back of his head before sliding the plate in front of him. "That's because you haven't been listening. Like when I tried talking to you the other night. You blew up before I could explain how I felt about Abigail."
"I told you when we met we'd never bring that up again." His tone sharpened. "So you had a baby years ago and gave her up for adoption. So what?"
Gail stared. "So what? When I first told you, you said I should be proud I'd carried my baby to term. Grateful I'd given her to a couple unable to have a baby."
"I didn't say I wanted to hear about it for the rest of my life." He picked up a fork.
"I've rarely mentioned it. At least not until recently. It's been nearly fifteen years since Abigail's birth. She's almost the age I was when I got pregnant."
Brad ate silently.
"Now my mother, who wouldn't stop drinking long enough to help me keep Abigail, decides she wants to be a grandma to our sons. And you can't see why that should upset me. As far as I'm concerned, she's never earned that right."
Continuing to eat slowly, Brad muttered, "She offered to help you keep Abigail. But you didn't give her the chance."
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