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WOMAN:
What She Has Done With Where She Has Been
is an anthology
of 14 stories of contemporary women who have faced adversity and
overcome it.
1.
TINA'S CHOICES
Tina Slavey-Hahn
left home at age fourteen to live the hippie life. Today, she's
reconsidered her goals, rebuilt her future and is now an instructor-trainer
who works with AIDS victims.
2.
COTTONWOODS AND BLUEBIRDS AND EILEEN
Eileen Johnston is a painter. But she had to give up
her passion for Western art to rebuild her life as well as that
of her husband and son.
3.
WONDER WOMAN DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Carol
Dean Schreiner traded reaping wheat for reaping applause. She is
a professional speaker, a writer and hostess of a radio talk show.
4.
SUITCASE FULL OF DREAMS
Born
in England, the child of an English mother and American father,
Renee' Kratz tells a poignant story of how she came home to her
United States.
5.
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
Impelled
by an urge to spread her gospel to the masses, Sammie Herring began
her own homegrown television production company.
6.
I AM THE CHURCH, YOU ARE THE CHURCH
Virginia
Hall struggled with a domineering husband and a religion she could
no longer follow until the weekend when she loaded up eight of her
eleven children and moved to Oklahoma.
7.
NASA AND NASHVILLE
Jan
Luna and Debby Opdyke began a cultural renaissance in a tiny Texas
Panhandle town.
8.
INNKEEPER EMILY
A
thirty-year dream to have a place to pamper those who pamper others
impelled Emily Ortiz-Bowen to take a leap of faith.
9.
GIFTS FROM GOD
Vicki
Proffitt's need for alcohol left her when she accepted the Lord,
but only after she had suffered several life-threatening accidents
and tried to take her own life.
10.
GIRLS ARE DOCTORS
Johnna
Knust traveled a rocky road on her personal journey from high
school dropout to cardiovascular surgeon.
11.
SPIRITUAL SOLUTIONS
With
no experience, Susanne Blake took a struggling program and built
it into a $1.8 million comprehensive mental health center. Then
her own life fell apart, and she had to ask for support from the
people she had helped.
12.
MARY IN THE SUNSHINE
Mary
Allison Clark pulled herself out of a suicidal clinical depression
to nurse her eighteen-year-old daughter through ovarian cancer.
To cope with her frustrations, Mary began Trompe l'oeil painting
on the walls of her home. Today she does Trompe l'oeil painting
professionally.
13.
EXCEPT FOR THAT CHAIR
Clorene
Midyett, who uses a wheel chair because of crippling rheumatoid
arthritis, is a successful businesswoman actively involved in the
operation of three enterprises.
14.
LOVE SHOULD NOT HURT
A
high school dropout, a rape victim, an abused wife and teenage mother,
Audrey Newell now counsels women and teenagers on domestic violence,
rape, sexual assault, teen pregnancy and self-defense.
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