Service and Devotion #It’s Six-Sentence Story Thursday Link-up

For six years, I was compelled to serve my late husband Bill, not because we were living in the Dark Ages, where that was all women did, but because Bill was partially paralyzed by two strokes and could do little for himself. I brought him food and drink, situated him at his computer so he could check email and download books onto his portable reader, transferred him from wheelchair to recliner where he enjoyed those books or a ball game, took him outside in favorable weather, lifted him onto the toilet when he needed to go, and tucked him into bed each night. I also gave him plenty of love, and he served it to me in return. I don’t regret those six years of service and devotion as a caregiver. Despite the unpleasant tasks I had to perform, those were happy years for me. I think Bill was also content. 

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You can read more of our story in My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds. Thanks to Girlie on the Edge for inspiring the above with her six-sentence story prompt for this week. If you’d like to participate in her blog hop, click here.

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New! The Red Dress

Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books

When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.

Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.

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