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Date Posted: Sun, December 04 2022, 9:55:58
Author: kgp
Subject: Qotd for Sunday, December 4, 2022

The following quotation is from The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon.Copyright 2011. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 6 Summoning


How old would his first child be now? He swallowed and thickness in his throat but continued doggedly in his train of thought. Claire had been two months gone with child when she’d stepped through the stones and back to Frank.


“God bless you, ye bloody English bastard,” he said through his teeth. It was his customary prayer when Frank Randall came to his mind - something he tried to avoid happening, but now and then . . . “Mind them well!”


Two months gone, and that had been April the 16th, Anno Domini 1746. Now it was April again, and 1760. If time went on in a normal fashion - and he saw no reason why it should not - then the child would be almost fourteen.


“Christ, he’s nearly a man,” he whispered, and his hand closed tight on the fence rail, so tight he felt the grain of the wood.

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[> Nearly a man at 14, how times have changed. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, December 07 2022, 4:10:12

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[> [> I know - ready to hold a man's job, possibly a family. -- kgp, Wed, December 07 2022, 7:09:08

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[> It's interesting that Jamie always thought the child would be a boy. He & Claire discuss this during their reunion in Voyager. "Nearly a man" at 14 in those times. -- DianaH, Wed, December 07 2022, 9:42:39

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