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Alice’s Endless Love - This is an incredibly moving story about love; love for people of another race, love for children with special needs, & love between a man & a woman--a surprise mail order bride--who can give nothing but kindness to all who surround them. A House Full of Children -- A man out west, a widower with two children, decides that it's time to find a wife as a helpmate. He accepts one who has a child of her own & together they learn to love each other & also add to the household. And with the help of God they learn how to survive both the pitfalls of life, the civil war & its aftermath, & the love that gathers round them like a garden full of wildflowers.
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Children in the Home! - Doreen Milstead
Children in the Home!
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Doreen Milstead
Copyright 2020 Susan Hart
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Alice's Endless Love
House Full of Children
Alice’s Endless Love
Synopsis: Alice’s Endless Love - This is an incredibly moving story about love; love for people of another race, love for children with special needs, & love between a man & a woman--a surprise mail order bride--who can give nothing but kindness to all who surround them.
Jonah had received a good Christian upbringing; the best that his mother could muster after his daddy had died when Jonah was just a baby. He had a strong back and a stalwart work ethic. Jonah possessed a rugged handsomeness that would have gone a long way with the ladies if it weren't for a hunting accident when he was young.
The accident had left him with an embarrassing limp and a self-consciousness that he could never get over. Despite his muscles, he shrunk away beneath the gaze of even the plainest women.
Aside from ladies though, there wasn't anything that Jonah shrank away from. Even with his bum leg Jonah had always taken to hard work and vigorous activity as a mule to the plow. For it, his nearly six-and-a-half-foot frame was graced with wide, thick shoulders like cannonballs and a whiskey barrel chest.
His thighs were as thick and firm as tree trunks and his arms bulged nearly as large. He might have been an intimidating figure if it wasn't for Jonah's pleasant demeanor and kind smile. He was shy cause of his limp though and he didn't go out looking for any attention. Jonah had never had to scuffle much and he had never had to prove himself to anyone.
He had but a few friends; a sheepish old hermit and an old renegade Indian who alone lived in the way of his ancestors. These three men saw each other only rarely but always enjoyed one another’s company for none was too self-involved and none wanted to gain anything from the other.
Keeping otherwise to himself for his entire lifetime had left Jonah pretty lonesome. His momma had moved on from this life several years ago and the home he'd cut out for himself had never known the benefit of a woman's touch. It had been a particularly cold and dreary winter that year in which Jonah found himself feeling lonelier than he ever had.
As a beautiful spring began to break through the cold, Jonah's mind was preoccupied with thoughts about women very much.
Jonah was very much aware of certain services a man could procure in which a bride set to a man's own specifications could pretty much be delivered straight to his door. He'd been becoming increasingly aware of such services for some time in fact.
By the middle of spring that year Jonah had made up his mind to employ such services to see just what exactly might come his way. As in most situations of the sort Jonah would be getting more than he was bargaining for.
Alice had spent her entire adult life in New York City. What she rarely let on though was that as a child she had known quite a different lifestyle. Alice had been born and raised out on the frontier. Her father, an Irish immigrant, had secured a piece of land for the family in the first Oklahoma land run.
On the day of the run, when almost twenty thousand other people stopped to settle upon a flat piece of land that would later become Guthrie, Oklahoma, Alice's father just kept on running. He ran far beyond any place that runners were settling in groups and when at last he was winded, he took a long look around himself to see a lovely piece of native prairie spreading out around him in every direction without another soul upon it.
This is where he would make his family's home.
Although sometimes life on the plains was difficult Alice and her family loved everything about it. On the frontier Alice learned the lessons that folks in the big cities, despite all of their education and pompous finery, would never understand.
Out on the plains Alice learned about struggle and strife and she learned the value of hard work and perseverance. She learned the often-hard lessons of life and death and through it all perhaps the most important thing Alice learned was genuine compassion.
Her mother often explained to her that compassion amongst the human race was the true grace of god.
When Alice was six years old, she began to learn the lesson of compassion well. Alice’s father had gone off for a few days to drive and sell the livestock as he had a hundred times before. Her mother was down at the nearby creek seeing to the wash on a beautiful spring day.
Alice was playing outside in the warm sunshine near the house just like she was supposed to. She spun around with her arms flayed wide and her eyes closed feeling the gentle breeze lap at her face. She hummed a gentle tune to herself and imagined it to be the song that the flowers might sing when they were happy and nobody else was around to hear them. Alice’s gentle melody though was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a sputtering little cough. Just a quick one and then it was gone.
Alice froze in place almost too afraid to open her eyes. Her little heart sped in her chest. Her ears perked but for a long time she heard nothing. She mustered the courage to open her eyes and saw nothing near her except for the gentle waving of the tall golden grasses all around her. Then a slight rustling sound drifted to her on the breeze and her head turned instinctually towards it.
She didn’t see the boy at first but her eye was suddenly drawn to a slight bit of movement that differed from the waving of the grass. Alice’s little eyes sharpened on a dark spot moving towards her through the grass and soon saw that it was the black hair on top of the head of a little Indian boy almost as big as her.
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