The Wish

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"You really think this is a gut idea, goin' clear out there, spendin' time with folk who've left the People?"
Leona wondered if she was getting the carriage before the horse. Even so, she was willing to do whatever she could to bring Gloria back home -where she belonged.
Leona Speicher got the "sister" she always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family rnoved to Lancaster County. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be the answer to Leona's prayers—until Gloria's father is expelled from their Old Order Amish church for reasons no one will discuss. Much to Leona's dismay, the Gingeriches suddenly pack up and disappear. Then, after a silence of several years, Gloria unexpectedly contacts Leona, who makes up her mind to go after her friend. Yet Leona's fiancé—the deacon's son—is alarmed. Will Leona's dearest wish lead to her own undoing?
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Beverly Lewis penned her
first story at age nine while living near Lancaster County Amish farmland, where she grew up. She... Tovább

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"You really think this is a gut idea, goin' clear out there, spendin' time with folk who've left the People?"
Leona wondered if she was getting the carriage before the horse. Even so, she was willing to do whatever she could to bring Gloria back home -where she belonged.
Leona Speicher got the "sister" she always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family rnoved to Lancaster County. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be the answer to Leona's prayers—until Gloria's father is expelled from their Old Order Amish church for reasons no one will discuss. Much to Leona's dismay, the Gingeriches suddenly pack up and disappear. Then, after a silence of several years, Gloria unexpectedly contacts Leona, who makes up her mind to go after her friend. Yet Leona's fiancé—the deacon's son—is alarmed. Will Leona's dearest wish lead to her own undoing?
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Beverly Lewis penned her
first story at age nine while living near Lancaster County Amish farmland, where she grew up. She welcomes her many reader-friends each day on Facebook and personally replies to fan mail. Lewis lives with her husband in Colorado near their family. Visit her website at vkrww.beverlylewis.com.
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ISBN 978-0-7642-1889-7
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When the Gingeriches moved into the farmhouse near us, it seemed lil^e an answer to prayer. Quicldy, they became as close as any of my blood kin here in Lancaster County. Closer, really.
Only this morning, Dawdi Benuel had asked, "Do ya realize you spend more daylight hours over at the Gingeriches' than ya do round here, Leona?"
Neither my father nor mother had ever voiced this, not being ones to share their feelings much. But I supposed Dawdi was right. In that single look from him, I had witnessed a hint of frustration, perhaps even disapproval—not that it could change my affection for Gloria Gingerich and her family.
The perfect family . . .
Jah, after all these wonderfully happy years living side by side, I had every reason to believe the future with my dear sister-friend would be as bright as the afternoon sun. . . . Vissza