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An Accidental Father
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ISBN13: 9798854283656
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2023
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2023
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In February, 1972, during an early morning run on the beach of Cape May Point, New Jersey, Nick D'Amico, a veteran of the Viet Nam War, and a local veterinarian, rescues a fallen, unconscious woman, Bridget, from the freezing cold of the snow covered beach.
Bridget Markey, a descendant from a long line of Philadelphia Quakers, moved in with her widowed mother, Margaret, at her house in The Point after Bridget's loss of her dream of bearing children when her husband divorced her because of her diagnosis as infertile.
Bridget Markey, a descendant from a long line of Philadelphia Quakers, moved in with her widowed mother, Margaret, at her house in The Point after Bridget's loss of her dream of bearing children when her husband divorced her because of her diagnosis as infertile.
Bridget feels Nick's rescuing her presages a closer relationship for them. She sees in Nick an emotionally stymied man with a potential for love that she wants to know, but Nick's disillusionment in the war, his embrace of the 'kill or be killed' mentality, has wounded his spirit and arrested his expectations for the future.
When Nick's dog kills a Canadian Goose, the sight ignites in Nick a horrifying flashback of the savage killing he did in Viet Nam, and he feels compelled to dissuade Bridget from her amorous pursuit of damaged goods. But Bridget's spiritual influence dares Nick to listen to the voice in his heart, to trust the redemption it offers him.
When Nick's dog kills a Canadian Goose, the sight ignites in Nick a horrifying flashback of the savage killing he did in Viet Nam, and he feels compelled to dissuade Bridget from her amorous pursuit of damaged goods. But Bridget's spiritual influence dares Nick to listen to the voice in his heart, to trust the redemption it offers him.
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