Ostrich in the Sand
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“Ian, why are you so angry. It has been over twenty years since I made the dreadful decision to place my child up for adoption. I’m not sure why you are so upset. Can you put your feelings aside long enough for us to talk? I know my child is turning twenty-one next year. Surely you have to know something about him or her. If you carried out my instructions, you will be giving the child their inheritance soon. Am I correct?” She has her nerve. What am I to do now? So it’s the inheritance she’s after. The inheritance had completely slipped my mind. I knew Rose would get everything I have when I die. I have plenty of money to leave Rose. If that’s what she wants, as far as I am concerned, she can have the trust fund. “Carol, I have followed your instructions and made arrangements for the money to go to your child. What makes you think I am going to be the one involved in this transaction? I pretty much turned everything over to the adoption center and my attorney at the time of the adoption.” “I get the strange feeling you are not telling me everything. I would like to come over to your house and visit with you. We are talking over the phone like a couple of business associates instead of a couple of friends. Would it be possible for me to come over tomorrow after I get myself together and get some rest?” “Carol I have some business matters to settle. I’m not sure it will be possible to see you. Perhaps, it would be best if we don’t see each other at all.” “I cannot believe you would put me off this way. A lot has happened to me in the past twenty years. I know what I did with my baby was wrong. I was young and confused. You have to try to understand why I did what I did. Could we please have lunch together or something? I need to talk to you.” “I will call you tomorrow and let you know if I can fit you into my schedule. Good-bye Carol.” Why would Ian take such a stand on this? You would think she had a personal interest in my child. If she is not willing to help me, I’m going to go to the adoption center and get it on my own. I will not leave Paris without finding my child.
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Carol and Paul lived the good life for ten years. They met in college and married shortly after graduation. Paul was an engineer and traveled extensively with his job. It was only after Paul was killed in a plane crash that Carol realized she didn’t know him at all. Left alone with no relatives and very few friends, Carol struggled to adjust. The sheltered life she had lived with Paul left her vulnerable and naïve. Her husband’s best friend and attorney John steps in to help Carol through the rough times after the accident. Somewhere between his rocky marriage and her loneliness they fell in love. The love affair ended when she announced an unwanted pregnancy. The choices she made altered her course of life drastically. Twenty years later when John’s son is diagnosed with Leukemia and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant Carol is faced with decisions. All efforts to find a donor have been futile. Should she come out of seclusion and search for the child she abandoned over twenty years ago or just continue to keep her head in the sand?
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dog Molly.She is a grandmother and a great grandmother. She recently retired to pursue her lifelong dream of writing. As she embarks on her new career she has chosen “Ostrich in the Sand” to be her first novel.