BLURB
Moving toward her Sixty-fifth birthday, Tessie Blount contemplates the next stage of her life. The death of her last girlfriend has her floundering as she deliberates between wanting to go on living or taking flight as all her friends have done and go up yonder. Not married and with no purpose, she questions the validity of living further until love is offered to her mostunexpectedly. But will she accept it?
EXCERPT
Teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom
Psalm 90:12 NIV 2011
Tessie Blount did not believe clouds could fall from Heaven, nor that gold was at the end of a rainbow, or that her life had to end at sixty-five… until her best girlfriend, Bob-Ann, crossed over right after her sixty-fifth birthday. As she stood by the gravesite, Tessie wasn’t so sure what she thought anymore. The ache in her heart at the loss of Bob-Ann had robbed her of her peace. She had done everything she could to keep Bob-Ann alive, but her girlfriend had been determined to go up yonder and leave her alone. Tessie had cried bitterly. The first days of aloneness nearly wiped her out. She took one last look at the grave and left the cemetery. Down to earth and by no means flighty, words of consolation given by the Pastor rose in her mind.
‘Death is unavoidable.’
Amen, Reverend! Tessie thought. As far as I know, it is inescapable, but does a person have to go at sixty-five? Can’t we live a full life after that magic retirement number?
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Pat Garcia
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Congratulations Pat. The premise sounds wonderful.