Create a short story, piece of memoir, or
epic poem that is 26 sentences long, in which the first sentence begins with
“A” and each sentence thereafter begins with the next letter of the alphabet.
An young, Alabama
girl once left the only home where she’d ever lived for a little known island
in the middle of the sea..
By day, she
biked around the island and prayed for God to guide and direct her in this new
life.
Certainly,
nothing bad could come from such a lovely, warm place.
Days, weeks,
and months passed and suddenly she found herself with a family, including two
small, precious sons.
Every moment
became consumed with motherhood, but….
Forever with
her husband suddenly didn’t feel so comfortable anymore.
Gone was the
little girl who left the Southern US for the South Pacific over 10 years ago.
How did she
end up in this place…how could such an idyllic island suddenly feel like such a
prison?
In time, all
would right itself, but when she was down, the hours felt like days, all alone
in her sadness with no idea how to fix it.
Just
wait….don’t make a move to change. Things will smooth out next week, next
month, next year.
Knowledge is
power. Knowing the truth gave her
strength to move on. Understanding herself and her situation provided her with
courage she never knew she had.
Love is far
from perfect, especially human love, but it also comes to you in the most
unlikely times and places.
Many, many
lessons can be learned from the tragedies of lost love if you are open to
accept them, AND…
New love
brings hope of a brighter future.
Only God
could reveal goodness from within the bad and bless her despite all her
mistakes.
Pleased to
be a part of life again, pleased to have found joy again, she could not believe
her luck.
Queer that
life would have to bring her more than 6,000 miles around the world to find her
true love; however,
Reality
often slapped her in the face during those post divorce years. Life was not
what she had dreamed it was going to be, but it was not bad, just different
than expected.
Something bigger
than the island or herself was at work here, and she started dreaming again of
what life could be.
True that it
would not be the easy journey she hoped it would be, but it would be grand and
full of surprises, that’s for sure.
Unique
circumstances had brought her to this place, and she would make the most of it!
Very nervous
and exciting for the future, she took another leap into the arms of her beloved
and across the sea to the mountains of the West Coast.
Where did
the years go? Are her boys really 11 and
13 now?
Xeroxing her
previous life was far from her mind. Now, she knew what marriage was about and
what she wanted and needed, so she would work toward making it successful and
finding peace in all the little things that she never considered important
before until she lost them.
You are all
a part of her journey. You may only know bits and pieces, only remember her
from her first 10 years on the island or her last seven, but she is the same
girl she has always been, simply older and hopefully a lot wiser.
Zestfully,
she approaches her life now, grabbing every chance she gets to explore, love, write,
and live to the fullest. Won’t you join
her?
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