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What Once We Loved
(2001)
Mazy dabbed at her upper body with water from the flowered washbowl with a rough huck towel ... her eyes glancing at the quilt pieces. Ruth had drawn the design Suzanne had described, and Mazy had promised to sew it for their blind friend. Each of the women had made a block to symbolize their experiences together coming across from the states to California last year. Mazy hadn’t even decided what her own block would say, but she liked the idea of making a story out of the pieces, making it look like the pages of a book.
"What once we loved is memory now, buried deep and tangled up with time."
In this final book of the Kinship and Courage series, Ruth and the other turnaround women discover the truth of what Elizabeth once told them: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, you've got to make the change yourself and not wait for someone else to do it for you."
Ruth Martin looks beneath the surface to discover healing and hope despite life's trail of disappointment.
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Reviews
"Masterful storytelling continues in this real-as-rain portrayal of the Oregon-California 1850s frontier. A compelling tale."
--Craig Lesley, author of The Sky Fisherman
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