Survivors....
Message From Nam - Paxton Andrews grew being loved by her nanny queenie and her father carlton andrews, but then her mother beatrice andrews as well as her brother george andrews didnt love her enough. since her mother had her when she was in her forties, the love she felt to her second child was gone. Paxton even when her father died in a plane accident and with a woman with him, wanted to fulfill her promise to her beloved father, attend a school far away from boring savannah, and ultimately make her dreams come true. when the school of her choice didnt accept her she ended up in berkeley in california, and had her first taste of true love, loss, and her incredible journey through womanhood. when her first true love died in the war, she told his dad who owned a newspaper company to let her join and let her go to vietnam where she will see just where her beloved peter wilson died. when finally given a choice, she will meet three men who will change her life. one of them is ralph johnson a seasoned journalist who becomes a mentor and more of a brother to her than anything else when he died his wife and her son and their baby die with him knowing that even when they arent they can never be with ralph living in america so she made an unforgettable choice. then she will meet a captain bill quinn married but with a shaky marriage, they will have a love that is not true but instead will ultimately make her be alone again, with bill dying because of being blind in love, she will come face to face with his sergeant tony campobello and find love with him, theirs is a love that will have a test but in the end she will ultimately find him again and get him home, after he had gone missing during a mission. she meets his family, his wife, his brother and his son joey as well as his mother who doubts that he will be alive but only paxton has never doubted and even when she did she goes back to vietnam and finds him and gets him home.
No Greater Love - when edwina winfields picture perfect life was taken in such a terrible way, she became the mother of her 5 other siblings, philipp, george, alexis, fannie and teddy, she gave up the idea of ever getting married again, and raised her siblings more like her kids, with a test when her responible brother philipp dying in the war, and young alexis running away just like she did to get her doll, in the dreadful titanic sinking that claimed her parents bert and kate winfield,and edwina's future husband charles fitzgerald its not the first time or rather the second time alexis has run away with georg'es success in hollywood, alexis will follow him, then ends up being kidnapped by a scheming actor malcolm stone who wants to marry alexis in order to live off her brother, but with edwina's will and her strength in boarding another ship, she finds a short lived love, when charles's second cousin patrick who is unhappy with his marriage, ends up having a relationship with her, then ultimately leaving with alexis and ends up with sam horowitz who will make her ultimately happy and is the father of helen horowitz george's wife and his mentor and father in law, at first she thought she will never find love bu
t ends up winning love in the end.
The Long Road Home - Gabriella Harrison was beaten by her mother since the age of 3, her mother Eloisa Harrison never had love in her heart, abandoned by her mother after her brother died and sent to live with her aunt she caught the eye of john harrison then ends up marrying her and giving birth to gabriella but eloisa has always been jealous of her daughter, in the even that gabbie was not perfect she would be beaten, with her dad never coming to her rescue, then when gabbie is 10 she is given away to a convent where she grows up with a loving mother superior mother gregoria, and a friendship and a dangerous love father joe connors their love turned dangerous when gabbie ended up pregnant and father joe committed suicide and she miscarried their baby, after being humiliated and kicked out of the convent, she finds an apartment complex run by a strict but friendly woman named Mrs. Boslicki and ends up befriending a professor, professor thomas and he becomes her mentor in becoming a writer someday, but when she strikes up a friendship with a man named steve porter it turned deadly since he wasnt who he said he was and instead turned out to be a man that escaped probation in jail and has used women to get their money, when he killed the professor, and his will left gabbie with a handsome sum, he beat gabbie again in order to get it, but with her will, she didnt let him and ended up in the hospital where she met a doctor peter mason and becomes her friend in the hospital, with her will to finally see where her parents are, she again seeks the help of mother gregoria, and sees her father for the first time, but he rejects her and even adds that if his wife barbara would know she would be there she would be mad, then heartbroken, she goes to california thinking her mother would still be there, but when she found their address and another woman answers, she knew the truth that eloise had died of breast cancer, with no love in her heart, her husband then frank waterford who gabbie met when she was younger, thought that their marriage was toally miserable she hated his kids and they hated her as well. with gabbie finally knowing the truth, she also confided in them that eloise used to beat her as well, and so is that guy she trusted, then in the end her friend peter mason, ends up coming to california w
ith her to enjoy the rest of her freedom.
The Gift - when a childs senseless death happens during the holidays, its hearbreaking and a once happy family ends up being torn apart by her death. Annie Whittaker was the apple and sunshine of her family's eyes, her brother Tommy, her parents John and Liz Whittaker loved her with all of their hearts, but with a selfish choice to make love while Annie was sick, they lost her with her saying thank you before departing their life. her parents blamed each other on why they didnt take care of her while they still could. then another girl was going to a dance, in the dance, she ends up almost leaving and ends up meeting a boy who took her out, and also made love to her for the first time, his name was Paul Browne and the girl was Maribeth Robertson she was sixteen when she got pregnant, and when her parents found out, Bert and Margaret Robertson, they ended up letting her go to a convent until she has the baby, but she left and instead boarded a bus to go to chicago, but stopped in a college town where she got a job as a waitress and also making up a story that she was a widow at eighteen, but she will meet tommy whittaker and ends up having a journey with him, she will know of his loss his estranged parents, but with maribeth she will bring them together, stil emotional after annie's death, with maribeth's belly growing day by day, she ends up living with the whittaker's and also catching up on her education, then while deciding on who to give her baby, she ends up choosing the whittakers saying that you can always just say to her baby that she is a friend, but with tommy wanting to marry her, and maribeth resisting, she ends up saying that she will finish high school and also enroll in a college in the small town, she and tommy can get married and start their own family, the whittakers lost a daughter but they gained another one with baby kate.
the books were awesome, and had real life lessons and 4 girls surviving what life throws at them, may it be from love, from a tragedy, from abuse, or from just a mistake, they survived and ended up being free in the end, life is like that when our life ends up going downhill we have to know that eventually we can get up and also survive in the end. Life is like a rollecoaster it has its ups and downs but one thing for sure is that God will ultimately let you get up again, and become even more loved by him and also more blessed by God. Life will throw us amazing ups and downs but in the end we know that our choices sometimes makes us who we are and sometimes it can make us or break us in the end. but we should still get up and never give up because God loves us and will make up happy when we think things have gone down the drain
Mama Min
Mama Sarah
your's truly
we went to chicago adler planetarium, UNO's pizza and burlington store, we had fun in the past days just telling and hearing stories of the past also having bonding moments and laughing like crazy.
