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    Love Among the Hay Fields
    Love Among the Hay Fields
    Love Among the Hay Fields
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    Love Among the Hay Fields

    By Dawn Churchill

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    Carolyn and Dan were inseparable childhood friends. Dan had always assumed that they would marry and live together on Carolyn’s family farm, but Carolyn left for college in Chicago and never came back. Now, 15 years later, she comes home for a family event and the fireworks between Carolyn and Dan spark. Their love is rediscovered among the hay fields.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDawn Churchill
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781458114815
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      Love Among the Hay Fields - Dawn Churchill

      Love Among the Hay Fields

      By Dawn Churchill

      Copyright 2011 Dawn Churchill

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      Chapter 1

      Carolyn was sitting on the Amtrak train trying to focus on her laptop computer, but she kept thinking back 15 years to her last months at the farm before leaving for college. She really needed to finish a quarterly report before the train got to Des Moines. Her family would be picking her up in Des Moines and there was no chance that she would get any work done on the one hour trip to the farm. Unfortunately, she couldn’t stay focused on her work. She kept thinking back to her last summer on the farm. She had left the farm for college 15 years ago and she had never thought back. Now, she just couldn’t get those last three months out of head and she couldn’t figure out why. She knew that it was partly due to the fact that she was going to be at the farm for 2 weeks and she hadn’t been there longer than 36 hours at one time in the last 15 years. She had made a New Year’s resolution this year to take a summer vacation and go to Maui for 2 weeks of relaxation. Unfortunately, she had the planned the vacation for the same time as her grandparent’s 60th wedding anniversary, so she had to cancel the vacation for a trip home. She was taking her first vacation in the 7 years since getting her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, and it was only going to be as exciting as a farm in the middle of Iowa. It wouldn’t be as exciting or beautiful as Maui, but it would definitely be more relaxing than Chicago and her position as Vice President of Research for a small company that designs diabetes test equipment.

      Just as she was contemplating whether she could survive 2 weeks in rural Iowa, her cellular phone rang. Carolyn answered the phone Hello, Carolyn Stratford speaking.

      Carolyn immediately heard jazz music in the background and knew the call was from her lead scientist, Kimberly Lamone. Kim quipped Carolyn, I am glad you answered. I was worried that you wouldn’t have cell reception on the train. I just couldn’t wait to tell you about the new data.

      Carolyn explained to Kim that her cellular phone service had been sporadic and Kim got quickly to the point, Carolyn, the new tests that you suggested were positive, but we need to work on better control experiments. This information set Carolyn off on an hour long discussion with Kim about possible experiments to perform with the new glucose sensor that Carolyn had invented. In graduate school, Carolyn had developed the idea for this new glucose sensor, which could detect glucose without pricking a patient’s finger, so she considered the sensor her baby and had been intimately involved in FDA testing from the beginning. Therefore, she excitedly discussed experimental options with Kim until the conductor called her stop.

      Carolyn climbed off the Amtrak at the Des Moines train station and glanced around looking for her family. It was June in Iowa and the temperature had to be almost 90, but her parents and both sets of grandparents were standing in the hot sun waiting for her. She pickup up her bags and quickly wandered over them and her grandfather said Welcome home, kiddo! How was the ride?

      Carolyn apologized for the train being an hour late and told them that the ride had been enjoyable. Her father picked up her bag and they walked to the parking lot. In Stratford style, all six of them had arrived in the same huge SUV. Her father always had at least one vehicle that would house the entire family. In her family’s eyes, Des Moines was a big city and none of her grandparents wanted or should drive in the city, even though as they aged they visited Des Moines more and more often to visit doctors and other medical specialists. Her father stowed her bags in the back and they all climbed in. She noted that her grandparents were definitely aging, because they all used the running boards to boost them up into the monster SUV.

      On the ride home, her mother filled her in on all of the local gossip around Lamont, IA and her grandparents filled her in on her cousins and their children. After an hour, she was glad to see the familiar dirt road that she considered home just as much as the house and barns at the end of the road. As she got out of the SUV, a golden retriever came bouncing up to the SUV and sniffed her. She knew the golden retriever’s name was Marty, but he did look strikingly like Moxie who had passed away of old age last year. Moxie had been the son of Max, who was the golden retriever that she grew up with. Moxie had been born that last summer Carolyn was home before college and she had fell immediately in love with Moxie. In her mind, the only thing she had ever missed about the farm had been Moxie and Max. Max had passed away in his sleep during her first year of college, so Moxie became the puppy that she confided in when she came back to visit. Now, Moxie was gone and Marty was replacing him as the protector of the farm.

      Marty followed her all the way to the front door of the two-story white farm house that she would always consider home. She had owned 2 different condos in Chicago over the last 10 years, but they had never really felt like home. She had never taken time to decorate them and their puritan white walls had always seemed more clean and sterile than homey. She always thought that she liked the pure white walls, but sometimes she wondered if she would ever consider a place of her own as her home. As she walked into the house, she was hit by the smell

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