A Chance of a Lifetime (2015)
“Maybe it was the lack of pressure to provide gifts or the tighter focus on family itself; she wasn’t sure, but she’d always loved the day, and this one had been no different.
Before the family had arrived, she and Mama had visited Lucy, home from the hospital. Her color was good, her mood maybe a tad less cheerful than usual though she tried to hide it, and she’d basked in the pleasure of all the pampering being done by Joe and her mother. The heart attack had been a fluke, she said, payoff for seven years of not caring for her body, but the cardiologist declared she was as healthy as a brand-new heart attack patient could be. She was going to be okay, she’d insisted.
Of course you are, Mama had agreed with a smile filled with grace. The Lord and I have discussed this.
Then it had been back home to meet Aunt Cheryl and her boyfriend, an engineering professor at OSU. They’d been together longer than most people stayed married, though Mama hadn’t yet quit hoping for a weddin...g ceremony someday.MoreLess
Before the family had arrived, she and Mama had visited Lucy, home from the hospital. Her color was good, her mood maybe a tad less cheerful than usual though she tried to hide it, and she’d basked in the pleasure of all the pampering being done by Joe and her mother. The heart attack had been a fluke, she said, payoff for seven years of not caring for her body, but the cardiologist declared she was as healthy as a brand-new heart attack patient could be. She was going to be okay, she’d insisted.
Of course you are, Mama had agreed with a smile filled with grace. The Lord and I have discussed this.
Then it had been back home to meet Aunt Cheryl and her boyfriend, an engineering professor at OSU. They’d been together longer than most people stayed married, though Mama hadn’t yet quit hoping for a weddin...g ceremony someday.MoreLess
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