Summer Snow (2011)
“I was an endless abyss of want, of need, of desperate dreams for myself that defied logic. The promise of what was to come hung like rings around the moon on clear autumn nights; the future was unmistakable. It was always there, glistening in the dark and suggesting that life was little more than climbing a ladder into the sky, where I could reach up with one hand and secure everything that I had ever hoped for in my grasping fingers.
Oh, I dreamed.
And they are not easy to give up, these dream...s.
When I learned that I was having a baby, those lavish promises fell like moonbeams that flickered with ephemeral light and quickly died against the backdrop of my much-changed life. I was a modern woman; we were decades past the days when girls were sent to distant relatives to have babies in secret and return as if nothing had ever happened. Nor did I have to stand in front of my church to admit before the entire congregation that I had committed the sin of fornication. But none of that changed the fact that I would be a single mom before the age of twenty.MoreLess
Oh, I dreamed.
And they are not easy to give up, these dream...s.
When I learned that I was having a baby, those lavish promises fell like moonbeams that flickered with ephemeral light and quickly died against the backdrop of my much-changed life. I was a modern woman; we were decades past the days when girls were sent to distant relatives to have babies in secret and return as if nothing had ever happened. Nor did I have to stand in front of my church to admit before the entire congregation that I had committed the sin of fornication. But none of that changed the fact that I would be a single mom before the age of twenty.MoreLess
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