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    The Well
    The Well
    The Well
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    The Well

    By JT Therrien

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    December 24th in war-torn and drought-stricken Muhajeria and Sharon convinces her husband to try to fix the broken village well. Jean-Marc is a busy doctor, reluctant to take time away from his patients, but disaster strikes and he must initiate a dramatic rescue. When Jean-Marc’s life hangs in the balance Sharon is filled with regrets. It just might be too late to reveal her Christmas secret.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJT Therrien
    Release dateJan 16, 2013
    ISBN9780921473053
    The Well
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    JT Therrien

    Fine Form Press is a boutique publisher committed to working with a limited number of authors such as JT Therrien. We publish some of JT's novellas and novels in a variety of genres, including: commercial; YA; paranormal; romances; and, love stories. Along with JT's art-themed and cancer-themed fiction, Fine Form Press also publishes some of his inspirational, Catholic-themed, fiction.

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      The Well - JT Therrien

      Fine Form Press

      The Well

      ISBN 978-0-921473-05-3

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Copyright ©2013 JT Therrien

      Cover Art by Fine Form Press

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      This book may not be reproduced or used in whole or in part by any existing means.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The characters are products of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously.

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      Acknowledgements

      Special thanks to: Donna, Susan, and Alicia for reading early drafts of this story.

      Cover photo courtesy of Dreamstime.com

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      December 24th in war-torn and drought-stricken Muhajeria and Sharon convinces her husband to try to fix the broken village well. Jean-Marc is a busy doctor, reluctant to take time away from his patients, but disaster strikes and he must initiate a dramatic rescue. When Jean-Marc’s life hangs in the balance Sharon is filled with regrets. It just might be too late to reveal her Christmas secret.

      The Well

      By JT Therrien

      December 24th

      Sudan

      Muhajeria, Darfur

      A bead of sweat, tickling like a dozen flies, snaked down Dr. Jean-Marc Lalonde’s flank. He lay on the small bed listening to the sounds of life in Muhajeria: far away, the faint squeals of glee in the air as kids played. Closer, trucks rumbled by the tent. He guessed they either belonged to the army or to one of the NGOs. Thankfully, he heard no sirens. From the direction of the nearby refugee camp floated the rhythmic thumps of a djembe drummer accompanying a flutist’s joyful melody. Closer still, he heard the refugees’ quiet chatter as they waited outside his tent. They spoke of leaving, but surrounded by miles of scorched hardpan and war-torn neighboring countries, where could they go?

      The truth was that no one ever actually left this place. Quite the opposite: refugees from other towns and villages either traveled here or to similar base camps all across sub-Sahara Africa to join the ever-growing queue of misery and disease-stricken inhabitants; a steady influx of bodies that overnight ballooned Muhajeria’s population from 10,000 to over 50,000 souls, in the process straining scarce local resources and the international community’s ability to offer proper aid.

      While his colleagues in Toronto played rounds of golf on Wednesdays and locked their office doors promptly at five o’clock the other weeknights, in Darfur Jean-Marc’s office remained open until sheer exhaustion forced him to put down his stethoscope and tongue depressors at the end of the day. Every hour he was reminded of that first Doctors Without Borders orientation meeting, where he had been warned about the high burnout rate among volunteer doctors, especially in stress-filled warring countries like the Sudan.

      He stood up and rummaged through a cardboard box for clean scrubs. Preoccupied with getting dressed, he asked his

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