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The following stories are pulled from my monthly columns for Indianapolis Woman Magazine www.indianapoliswoman.com and The Messenger, a publication based in Padua, Italy.
"624 Roses" - January 2007
The last time Joanne Seaman saw her husband, she nearly walked out the door without kissing him, but doubled back. It was a wintry Sunday in Indiana. Joanne was taking three of the couple’s children from their home in Upland to Fort Wayne for their cousin’s second...
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"Instant of Change" - January 2005
Sara McCracken, 52, adjusts her goggles and bends her head over the steel mesh table. Sparks fly from the arc of her weld. Sara has learned just how much heat is needed to merge two metals. The analogy to the convergence of her old life as a physician, and her new one as an artist - is not lost on Sara. Like a phoenix, the life she’s leading - a life she loves - ...
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"Soul Survivor" - February 2004
It was half past midnight, Valentine’s Day, 1977, when the 44 year-old mother of four boys in Hollandsburg, Indiana, did what the voice told her to do. She stood up and looked down at her normally pristine living room, at her sons, now covered in blood. Her own blood stained her...
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"Little Girl on the Corner" - October 2001
It was weather for running the heater and cracking the window. Good driving weather, when the sun shines through a filter of crisp Autumn air and the leaves fall in clumps from the trees. Bill Hussion’s senses were alive despite his long night of work. Bill dropped off the big rig he drives from Indianapolis to South Bend each night, trading it for his pickup truck with the ru...
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