The Gift: A NovelOn a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives—a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them. The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability—and the wonder—of life. |
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... things you've got are your mind , and your education . " " I wish my mom felt like that . She does every- thing my ... things to him she had never said to anyone before , " I always felt different from them . I've always wanted things no ...
... things you've got are your mind , and your education . " " I wish my mom felt like that . She does every- thing my ... things to him she had never said to anyone before , " I always felt different from them . I've always wanted things no ...
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... things ... like my folks ... or my sister . . . " " Do you talk to them ? " He was intrigued , there were still so many little mysteries about her . Every- thing was new and so exciting . " I write . It works better that way . My dad ...
... things ... like my folks ... or my sister . . . " " Do you talk to them ? " He was intrigued , there were still so many little mysteries about her . Every- thing was new and so exciting . " I write . It works better that way . My dad ...
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... thing but easy . " That's what she says . She says she knows it's the right thing for her to do . I think that's why she doesn't talk about the baby much , or buy little baby things . She doesn't want to get attached to it . " But he ...
... thing but easy . " That's what she says . She says she knows it's the right thing for her to do . I think that's why she doesn't talk about the baby much , or buy little baby things . She doesn't want to get attached to it . " But he ...
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