Forever And a Day
“—Nicolas Chamfort,Caractères et anecdotes (1771) DRESSED IN HER BEST SUNDAY gown, which she’d stitched herself with great pride, Georgia pushed out a breath and glanced around her tenement one last time, lingering in the small kitchen of what used to be her life. Smoothing her still-damp hair, which she’d assembled into a coif she hoped looked respectable, she wandered over to the small wood table and emptied the contents of her box upon it for Matthew to find.
Leaving the box open, she hur...ried to the wall and reached up and over the doorless cupboard for her mother’s rosary, lifting the wooden beads off the nail. She kissed them, thanking the Lord in heaven for all of her blessings, and let the beads fold down and into a pile at the bottom of the box before pressing the wood lid back into place.
Aside from all of her gowns, which she’d bundled up in a large sack, her father’s box and her mother’s rosary were the only things she cared to keep of the life she was leaving behind.MoreLess
Leaving the box open, she hur...ried to the wall and reached up and over the doorless cupboard for her mother’s rosary, lifting the wooden beads off the nail. She kissed them, thanking the Lord in heaven for all of her blessings, and let the beads fold down and into a pile at the bottom of the box before pressing the wood lid back into place.
Aside from all of her gowns, which she’d bundled up in a large sack, her father’s box and her mother’s rosary were the only things she cared to keep of the life she was leaving behind.MoreLess
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