6/6/2023 0 Comments The gift book danielle steel![]() ![]() Will Maribeth find a home for her baby? Will she realize her dream of college? Will the Whittakers bond again? Just you guess. Love simmers, eventually Maribeth tells Tom everything, and he tells his parents. ![]() Guess who's eating at the diner? It's Tom. Dad roars her off to a convent for unwed mothers, but she leaves and de-buses at a friendly-looking town where she's hired as a waitress. ![]() Sure enough, Paul returns to his regular girl, and Maribeth is preggers. But rotten BMOC Paul, undeterred by navy blue, seduces the innocent Maribeth. ![]() Switch to Iowa and pretty, gifted Maribeth, oppressed by a hidebound father who forces her to go to the high school prom in a navy blue dress with long sleeves. By the following summer (1952) the family has shattered. The Whittaker family-John (``a warm, caring man''), teacher Liz, 15-year-old Tom (sterling athlete and student), and 5-year-old Annie (quite adorable)-are in the midst of a cozy Illinois Christmas (hot chocolate, skating, the works) when suddenly little Annie is dead of meningitis. 16, etc.), in which a family tragedy, the plight of a unwed teen mother-to-be, and the drift of a grieving teenage boy conclude in a happy ending that, like a technicolor sunset, can be sighted from some distance. A sugared concentrate of Steel's soothing-syrup craft (Accident, p. ![]()
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