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Acknowledgments

My Heavenly Father, thank You for s!

To my husband, Lance, my children, family and friends Thank you for your continued support I appreciate and love you!

To ht Girl, those phone calls are a lifesaver! Thanks, sis

A special thank-you to the readers and authors I’ve met on this journey You continue to enrich my life

Thank you to uidance and support

A very special thank-you to er I appreciate you more than words can say

CHAPTER 1

“Hey, girl You want to do lunch today?”

Faith Alexander sns” Once or twice a month on a Saturday she and her best friend, Kathi Norris,on, Kathi Soe she’d been working on and left the spare bedroom in her town house that she had converted to an office It contained a desk, two bookshelves, a file cabinet and a sofa for those tiht, but needed a place to nap She crossed the living roo there

He stuck a box into her hands along with a card and pen “Just sign here, please”

She cradled the phone against her ear, adjusted the box and signed the receipt “Thank you” Faith closed the door and frowned, not recognizing the sender

“Helloooo”

Kathi’s voice drew Faith out of her thoughts “Sorry I just got a box froeles named Thaddeus Whitcomb”

“Ooh, girl, you’ve got a ifts from California?”

“No I have no idea who this is” She shook the box and heard a slight rustling

“What’s in it?”