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Welcome to another edition of Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up. This week’s word is “knot.” My contribution is an excerpt from My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds. After proposing to me in 2005, my late husband Bill has just arrived in Sheridan, Wyoming, where I live, after traveling all night on the bus from his home in Fowler, Colorado. The scene opens as we are eating breakfast with my father in a restaurant near the bus station.

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We both ordered pancakes and sausages. My stomach was so tied up in knots. I didn’t think I could get anything down, but when we were ready to leave, my plate was empty except for one sausage, which I offered to Bill and he accepted.

He spent the next week with me in my apartment. At first, he slept on the living room couch, but after a couple of days, I found myself asking him to sleep in my double bed with me, thinking he would be more comfortable. When I worked, he stayed in the apartment and listened to talking books or went out with Dad to look at houses.

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Thanks to Girlie on the Edge for inspiring the above excerpt with this week’s six-sentence story prompt. You can click here to participate in this week’s hop and read other bloggers’ responses.

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New! Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me

Copyright 2021 by Abbie Johnson Taylor.

Independently published with the help of DLD Books.

 

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Sixteen-year-old Natalie’s grandmother, suffering from dementia and confined to a wheelchair, lives in a nursing home and rarely recognizes Natalie. But one Halloween night, she tells her a shocking secret that only she and Natalie’s mother know. Natalie is the product of a one-night stand between her mother, who is a college English teacher, and another professor.

After some research, Natalie learns that people with dementia often have vivid memories of past events. Still not wanting to believe what her grandmother has told her, she finds her biological father online. The resemblance between them is undeniable. Not knowing what else to do, she shows his photo and website to her parents.

Natalie realizes she has some growing up to do. Scared and confused, she reaches out to her biological father, and they start corresponding.

Her younger sister, Sarah, senses their parents’ marital difficulties. At Thanksgiving, when she has an opportunity to see Santa Claus, she asks him to bring them together again. Can the jolly old elf grant her request?

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