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Date Posted: Tue, November 08 2022, 2:56:40
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, November 7, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights reserved. Chapter 97 A Man to do a Man’s Job

Gail Abernathy provided a quick but solid supper of spaghetti and meatballs, salad, garlic bread and - after a quick, penetrating look at Bree - a bottle of wine, despite Brianna’s protests. “You’re spending the night here,” Gail said, in a tone brooking no opposition, and pointed at the bottle. “And you’re drinking that. I don’t know what you’ve been doing to yourself, girl, and you don’t need to tell me - but you need to stop doing it.”

“I wish I could.” But her heart had risen the moment she walked through the familiar door, and her sense of agitation did subside - though it was far from disappearing. The wine helped, though.

The Abernathy’s helped more. Just the sense of being with friends, of not being alone with the kids and the fear and uncertainty. She went from wanting to cry to wanting to laugh and back again in the space of seconds, and felt that if Gail and Joe had not been there, she might have had no choice but to go into the bathroom, turn on the shower, and scream into a folded towel - her only safety valve in the last few days.

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[> Food, friends, and safety were just what Bree needed. Thank God for the Abernathys! -- DianaH, Tue, November 08 2022, 10:24:36

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