Finding Gilbert: A Promise Fulfilled
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How do the unfulfilled dreams and promises of our parents shape our lives and our destinies?
During the Normandy Invasion in 1944, an American lieutenant took a French orphan boy Gilbert under his wing, making sure the boy had enough to eat and giving him attention and love. As the months passed and their bond deepened, he tried unsuccessfully to adopt the boy and bring him home to America.
Years later, the soldier’s daughter grew up hearing her father’s stories about his time in France and about the orphan Gilbert. During her childhood, the boy felt like an invisible brother, hovering in her consciousness, slightly out of focus.
Fifty years after the war and two years after her father’s death, she found herself compelled to write about how his stories of his time in France had influenced her life.
As she journeyed to France to retrace her father’s footsteps, would she be able to complete what he had left unfinished? Could she find his orphan and tell him that her father had never forgotten him?
In this true story about the power of love and kindness, Covington-Carter weaves a tale that spans seven decades, beginning and ending on the shores of Normandy. In it, she discovers the role that forgotten dreams play in guiding us towards our destinies.
This book is a testament to the importance of a father's love and how a caring father can change lives in ways that ripple down through the generations.
Diane Covington-Carter
Diane Covington-Carter calls herself a "late-bloomer baby-boomer" since she has accomplished so many interesting things when most people are considered "over the hill." In her late forties, she bought a run down apple farm in the foothills of the Sierras and took on restoring it and taking care of it, all on her own. At age fifty, she moved to France for eight months to do her "Junior Year Abroad Thirty Years Late" and had a fabulous time. At sixty she fell in love with the man of her dreams, and they now live together on the apple farm and also in New Zealand, when they are not traveling around the world to other exotic and interesting places. She has published three books, with more on the way and is a very active travel writer. She is a great believer in the power of clearing out the past so that you can create a magical life, and her life is a testament to that belief. If you have dreams that you have put on the back burner and are ready to dust them off, send her an email at her website, www.dianecovingtoncarter.com. It is never too late to bloom. It is never too late to fly.
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