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    Preparation Day
    Preparation Day
    Preparation Day
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    Preparation Day

    By Darrel Bird

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    An Adventist teen who finds herself pregnant. She is soon faces the threat of an imposed abortion which she does not believe in, and which she swears will not take place, darkness envelopes her until she finds an unexpected friend in her aging next door neighbor. She flees to a home for girls and finds her life work as she encounters a beaten and bruised teen who is to be her roommate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateJun 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458171979
    Preparation Day
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Preparation Day - Darrel Bird

      Preparation Day

      By

      Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2010 by Darrel Bird

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      Preparation Day

      The Truth

      Sixteen-year-old Lori Binghamton leaned her head against her locker as the morning sickness washed over her in waves. It was time for her afternoon Math class, and she hadn’t been able to down the greenish-brownish-grayish mass of vegetation they had served in the cafeteria at lunch.

      She knew she was pregnant, and she knew her father would have the baby aborted to save face, but oh how she dreaded telling him. She knew Mom would go along with what her father decided as she always had done.

      She sat in class, staring through the teacher. She was struck through with shame as she remembered that Thursday night when Jimmy McGowan had begged her, his hands everywhere, and she had given in and let him do it in the back of his dad’s Cadillac.

      Jimmy’s father was Dr. James McGowan, who sat near the front row in church. He was a member of the church board, and the McGowans, along with Judy, their daughter, and Jimmy, would march in each week and take their seats. No one would dare to sit in those seats, except a total stranger, who might visit the church. Then Dr. McGowan would quickly let them know that those were his seats, and they would have to move. He was a powerful figure in the Seventh-day church, the church her family had attended all her life. He was also a powerful figure in the Academy.

      Lori thought Jimmy was a good catch; the girls were green with envy when Jimmy had begun asking her out. If they only knew, she thought, as the class came to a

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