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The story takes us to Salt Lake City during the early 1900s and invites us to look behind the lace curtains of one of its famous mansions. Inside, David and MaryAnne are just getting acquainted. Love develops, courtship follows, then marriage . . . a daughter-an age-old storyline with a few new twists.
Evans artfully conveys the preciousness of childhood, reminding that "to hold the note is to spoil the song." Still, the love engendered in nurturing a child lasts forever, withstanding not only the tests of time but the tests of forgiveness, of loyalty, and in this story, of grief.
Richard Paul Evans uses the classic symbols of angels and timepieces to illustrate faith's power to sustain, even in the face of the pain. "Pain is instructive," MaryAnne says, "and through it I become more than I would otherwise." During these moments we do not "show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves."
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