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Myrna G. Raines. Jewel
Jewel. Myrna G. Raines
Chapter 1 A Tragic Event
Chapter 2 Leaving The Cabin
Chapter 3 The Burial
Chapter 4 Jewel Learns the Tragic News
Chapter 5 Jewel Makes a Decision
Chapter 6 Jewel and the Children
Chapter 7 Journey to a New Life
Chapter 8 A Life Altering Dilemma
Chapter 9 Bull’s Revenge
Chapter 10 Jewel Flees
Chapter 11 Bull’s Search
Chapter 12 Jewel Adjusts
Chapter 13 Bull is a Wanted Man
Chapter 14 Jewel Ventures Out
Chapter 15 Bull Returns Home
Chapter 16 Luke Meets a Stranger
Chapter 17 Jewel Meets the Man
Chapter 18 Dan Helps Jewel
Chapter 19 Jewel’s Nightmare
Chapter 20 Luke Makes a Discovery
Chapter 21 Jewel’s Discussion
Chapter 22 Jewel Calls Home
Chapter 23 Jewel’s Reaction
Chapter 24 Jewel’s Arrest
Chapter 25 Jewel Consults Lawyer
Chapter 26 A Brother’s Visit
Chapter 27 The Law Questions Jewel
Chapter 28 Jewel Seeks Answers
Chapter 29 The Confrontation
Chapter 30 Jewel Finds Love
Chapter 31 The Birth
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The Great Depression, it was so called. A far-reaching depression that swept the entire nation and affected rich and poor alike, and was like no other America had ever known. Very few escaped the devastating consequences, and it would be many years before the country recovered from the debilitating effects. In the canyons of Wall Street, men lost great fortunes when the stock market failed, and many could not bear to see their very fortunes swept away with the tides of calamity. It seemed far too often, for those who could afford to buy newspapers, that people read of another who had taken their life, the mortification of losing everything they owned on this earth too much to bear. Most leapt from the tall windows that comprised their office buildings, landing with their dignity splattered on the streets below.
In the hills of West Virginia, there were those who had never heard of a stock market, Wall Street, or what it meant to invest money in anything except food and at times, drink. This story is of those whose greatest priority in life was making it through the day, allowing tomorrow to take care of itself.
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“I gotta go and git Uncle Clive, Shannon. Daddy ain’t never slept this late since he got back from the war. He’s gotta be awful sick. And Mommy won’t wake up neither. Whatsa matter with ’em?”
Clay, Jr. remembered their daddy coming home after the war, but Shannon could only remember bits and pieces. Mommy told her that Uncle Clive had helped them out a lot when Daddy was gone and that Mommy’s younger brother, Shelmer, come and stayed with them most of the time, doing the work Daddy always did. Seemed like Shannon could remember Daddy coming down the lane, carrying some kind of bag over his shoulder and being dressed all in white, but Mommy said that she couldn’t remember that because she was just two when he come home. Somebody must have told her that and she just remembered the telling is what Mommy said. But Shannon knew better and finally quit trying to convince her mommy that she did remember Daddy coming home.
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