By the Light of a Thousand Stars

by Jamie Langston Turner

Series: The Derby Series (3)

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While Catherine Biddle's outwardly pristine household is wracked from within by serious dysfunctions, her neighbors, who live in seeming sloth and chaos, seem to possess the inner tranquility she desires for her own family.

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"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice:
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him,
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,
and she that bore thee shall rejoice."
Proverbs 23:24, 25

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FOR JESS
who is going with me

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July 29
Dottie
A Few Short Years

LYing on her daughter's bed, Dottie Puckett heard sounds as if they were magnified a hundred times that day.

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While Catherine Biddle's outwardly pristine household is wracked from within by serious dysfunctions, her neighbors, who live in seeming sloth and chaos, seem to possess the inner tranquility she desires for her own family.

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