Louie writes to another woman in Mississippi after she has heard that her new friend is now in the hospital, fighting for her life. As you can imagine, she is devastated at the news.
This is a collaboration between myself and my friends, Michelle Kidwell of California, and Sarah Tagert of Mississippi, who are also members here and are talented writers in their own right. Check them out; you won't be disappointed! :)
Thursday, July 14, 2005, 10:34 a.m., C.D.T.~
Dear Deborah~
I am a new friend to Audrey Jackson, and I just received the terrible news that she has been injured in a car wreck and is now fighting for her life in the hospital. What exactly happened, and are the girls okay?? Please don't leave out any details; I am a nurse; I can take it!
My name is Louisiana Sandusky, and I have written a few letters to Audrey before her husband smashed her computer, and it is as though she has disappeared off the face of the earth; this, of course, has me very concerned, not only for her, but for her daughters.
To tell you a bit about myself, Deborah, I am 36 years old, just turned (last month, on the 10th), and I have been married to my husband, Bill (William) for fourteen years now. We did have three children of our own, but unfortunately, all of them died, two while still tiny babies. (The third--he was the firstborn of the three--died on what would have been his fourth birthday; he had cerebralspinal meningitis.) Well, as you can probably imagine, both Bill and myself were devastated at the loss of our babies; and there isn't a day now when we don't think of them or don't miss them. We still miss them very much, and we visit their graves whenever we are in Louisiana; they are buried in a cemetary in Breaux Bridge, which is where I am from, orginally. Bill knew I wanted a family after the deaths of our children, so we turned to adoption; and the first two we adopted are now going to be 13 years old this coming December; we adopted them when they were just babies. We then adopted seven more, instantly swelling our family of four to a family of 11, and the rest just sort of followed thereafter. We did NOT plan to adopt so many children, but God laid it upon our hearts, and we found out that there were many children in need, so we took them in to raise as our own; and now we have fifty-two children. We will be getting our 53rd child in a few months, another little girl from Romania who has spina bifida.
A lot of our children are what society calls "special-needs": that is, it is safe to say that a lot of them are disabled, physically, mentally, or both, and a lot of them were older than the age of two when they were adopted. Some of them are also part of a sibling group that for one reason or another could not be seperated, and a lot of them are of different racial backgrounds. We have children who were born in Asia, Africa, the United States, South and Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and Canada, and they now range in age from just one year all the way on up to age 23, and all but four still live at home with my husband and myself.
Deborah, I wish I could take Audrey and her girls in, but I have more than enough with my own children, and it would be so hard to try to find room for them. I CAN, however, pay for a hotel room for them not far from here, and I can then visit them and get to know them and see exactly for myself what Audrey has been enduring from her husband, Jack. Yes, abuse IS a horrid thing to have to endure, and Audrey is doing the right thing in leaving Jack--and taking the kids with her. I just hope and pray that the children are okay, and I will be praying that Audrey recovers from her terrible injuries.
I am trying to let the news sink in about this situation, and I am in shock; so if my writing seems stilted or off the wall somehow, please do forgive me. I am just trying to make sense of all this, and my head is all awhirl at the present time. This has been a bad week for me, so you know that I am unable to take in Audrey and her kids into my home; but as I just said, I CAN pay for a hotel room for them close by. Please do get back to me again regarding this matter, and thank you again for letting me know about Audrey and her children! They are as ever in my prayers!
Most sincerely yours,
Louisiana Mayrah Therese' Sandusky in Nashville, Tennesee (mama to soon to be 53 Miracle Children). :( >tears<
P.s.: I have a daughter named Deborah; she is 14 years old, and she came to us at the age of eight from Iran. She has spina bifida, severe asthma, and was born without arms or hands. But she still can do so much for herself with her prosthetic hands! Plus she has such a pretty singing voice; she just LOVES to sing!
A moving story, Karen. I could feel the sense of love, admiration and sadness that your character is feeling.
Thanks for sharing and I'll look forward to reading more.
Hugs and Love,
Jill
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