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By Michael Ross

Here is the 2013 Miracle maker of Lolo, Montana.
Member of PKP, Licensed Private Pilot, General Class Radio Amateur, Inventor of Spot-Grade , and AID-IF
Roger Williams University. Summa cum Laude Industrial Engineer

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490757964

Michael Ross

Michael Ross is a lover of history and great stories. He’s a retired software engineer turned author, with three children, and four grandchildren, living in Newton, Kansas with his wife of 38 years. Michael graduated from Rice University and Portland State University. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, and still loves Texas. He’s written short stories and technical articles in the past. “Across the Great Divide: Clouds of War” is his first novel.

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This story is about a love affair that starts in Heaven, and continues to be played out on earth. The LDS Church’s belief is that a person’s Spirit pre-exists in Heaven and a choice is made in Heaven to come to earth and inhabit a human body so as to advance in striving to become more like Our Father God.

Mike Edwards and Kim Martin met on earth, in a wedding party for each other’s best friend: Kim’s best friend Beth Franks and Mike’s best friend Michael Youngblood. It was the summer of the start of their University senior year and they all had high hopes for life ahead. With new-found love, Mike and Kim were particularly soaring on the wings of love and invincible in their approach to life and living.

I attended her Graduation ceremony and saw Kim walk across the platform and receive her diploma, after which I never saw her again. The woman who carved her initials on my heart was gone…why? It was a long time before I was able to recover from that calamity, if I ever have to this day.

Many years (45 to be exact), many miles (tens of thousands), many adventures and many accomplishments later: I again held Kim in my arms for the most gloriously and incredible feeling of love I have ever experienced. We were one again, to continue our earthly sojourn in love and experience. Heaven bound!

Kim had a skin Cancer that her Dermatologist said was the worst case he had seen, but she kept on with treatments. I Prayed for her daily.

She said that as I prayed for her she could feel those Prayers.

A ‘social-train-wreck’ caused by Mike, once again parted Kim and I. This resulted in a restraining order being filed by Kim, preventing me from ever seeing her again. In the meantime a catastrophic accident of a broken pelvic bone had Kim hospitalized.

At a local 4th of July ceremony, I saw her and she looked grim. Round shouldered, stooped, and needing a walker and an attendant to get about. Broke my heart that I couldn’t approach her. That afternoon I called to ask a sorority sister how she was. She said it will be a year and half for her to recover from that break.

I called Beth Youngblood and told her. Beth said it is all over between Kim and I and she added emphatically, ‘don’t think about her, and in particular, don’t even Pray for her anymore.’ Needless to say, I continued to Pray, as well I did other things.

October 2nd (two months later) I saw her again in a supermarket checkout line…tall, erect, square-shouldered, drop-dead gorgeous, no walker, no attendant, and with no effects