Twig Benders: (ePub)

Hillary Clinton’s book, It Takes a Village, made me think about the village I grew up in, and I realized that those people really helped determine the person I became. So I drew lessons from specific events, and these stories are the results. Out of respect for the people I have written about, the names and the stories have been fictionalized, and I have moved them all into Lakeville. But in recalling events I knew about as a child, which may not have been the way they actually occurred, I saw how to deal with challenges I met as an adult.

I am now happily in my third marriage, and my family includes my four children with my first husband, who died in a auto accident after a terrible mental illness; the child and grandchildren of my second husband, who died of cancer after 26 wonderful years; and the children, grandchildren, and stepchildren of my third husband, who has taken us all in as his. Our family includes nine children, twenty-six grandchildren, and soon to be eleven great-grandchildren. My roots grow in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Iowa, and Kentucky, but we live in the same Mississippi county Danny has always lived in, which also raised my mother.

Danny and I love RVing (when the garden isn’t coming in). We’ve found that people are the same everywhere, once you get past their speech.

And God is God everywhere, loving His creation.

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