THE CORNER BETWEEN MY LIFE AND HERS

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Tina Medley-Galloway. THE CORNER BETWEEN MY LIFE AND HERS

THE CORNER BETWEEN MY LIFE AND HERS. A NOVEL. TINA GALLOWAY

Dedication

Acknowledgements

PROLOGUE

JEREMY

GLENDA

JEREMY

ANDRES

JEREMY

PART TWO

LACEY

JEREMY

ANA

JEREMY

THE END

EPILOGUE

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR

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It is never too late to be who you might have been—George Eliot

Mom & Dad-my deepest love and thanks for giving me the tools & support needed to accomplish anything I put my mind to.

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Eve Newmont was the darling of the church. I called her that because she was, to most of the adult church members, the walking epitome of what a southern church girl should look like, with her perfectly coiffed long black ponytails and immaculate department store dresses, accented by unmarked white patent Buster Brown leather dress shoes. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a middle school teacher. Eve had two much older twin brothers (she was 13 and they were 19), who had left the home for college recently. This left only Eve at home, so I understood her elitist attitude toward the other children who were not blessed to be the sole focus of their parents attention. At one point I had also been that child, but now (no fault of Glenda’s, she did the best she could), I was one of three instead of one of one.

Eve took a strange liking to me right away and when I would run into her hanging around the back entrance to church she would always say “hi” and ask, “What I was writing in my notebook?” Eve being a girl, I didn’t think she would understand the over-sized super hero faces I was drawing or the short stories about Captain Hero and his ascent to planet Krypton. Thus, I never showed her my notebook and she never asked more than once. Eve was talkative and would dominate most conversations about stories of her two older brothers; most sentences started the same way, “Josh and Ronnie said.” I had never met Josh or Ronnie since they had never come to the church, which according to Eve, was because they didn’t believe anything Arun said. When Eve first said this, I felt a twinge of volcanic anger brewing within me, but after hearing, her repeat the same mindless words repeatedly my senses dulled to her comments. I started to realize that they weren’t her thoughts, and she was just a young impressionable puppet repeating the words of two jock-strapped morons.

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