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    Mail Order Brides: Letting Spirits Soar With God’s Love
    Mail Order Brides: Letting Spirits Soar With God’s Love
    Mail Order Brides: Letting Spirits Soar With God’s Love
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    Mail Order Brides: Letting Spirits Soar With God’s Love

    By Amy Rollins and Joyce Melbourne

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    Mail Order Bride: Free At Last In California - Sick of the taunts from the inhabitants of her small town, above average weight Jocelyn had endured numerous insults since she was a small child. An ad for mail order brides spurred her to act and she wrote to the company and was matched up with a rancher in California who wanted a wife with a sense of adventure.

    Mail Order Bride: Overweight & Larger Than Life Itself, is about an overweight woman from London who decides to travel to San Francisco after corresponding with a store owner, and deciding that he would be a perfect match for her. Maybe he will be, but only if she can extricate herself from an increasingly more complex but less than perfect life in England.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateJul 9, 2015
    ISBN9781310850257
    Mail Order Brides: Letting Spirits Soar With God’s Love
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    Amy Rollins

    Amy Rollins was born in California and has lived there her entire life. She has a husband, two adult children, and a large garden, which she grows most of her food in. She also takes care of a menagerie, which includes three cats, a gigantic rabbit called Roger, a rescued donkey and a large, white, old horse, which was called Boney but now is more like a water barrel! Her favorite genre for the Christian literature she writes is mail order brides.

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      Mail Order Brides - Amy Rollins

      Mail Order Brides: Letting Spirits Soar With God’s Love

      By

      Amy Rollins & Joyce Melbourne

      Copyright 2015 Amy Rollins & Joyce Melbourne

      Mail Order Bride: Free At Last In California

      Mail Order Bride: Overweight & Larger Than Life Itself

      Mail Order Bride: Free At Last In California

      Synopsis: Mail Order Bride: Free At Last In California - Sick of the taunts from the inhabitants of her small town, above average weight Jocelyn had endured numerous insults since she was a small child. An ad for mail order brides spurred her to act and she wrote to the company and was matched up with a rancher in California who wanted a wife with a sense of adventure.

      Jocelyn had never really expected to get married. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to. Jocelyn wanted nothing more than to settle down with the man of her dreams and celebrate God’s approval of the union with an enormous party, complete with all her favorite foods and a gigantic cake that everyone could share.

      However, with the way it was in her small, South Carolina town, Jocelyn knew that if she wanted that kind of life, the kind where she loved a man, he loved her, and they spent the rest of their days together, she’d have to leave.

      Good Lord, Jocelyn, Randy Black hooted as she spurred her horse forward. Where’d you get a beast strong enough to bear you? Will you breed it? I need some stumps pulled out on my property sooner or later.

      Jocelyn set her mouth in a straight line and kept her gaze steady on the road ahead. She wouldn’t give the likes of Randy Black the satisfaction in knowing that she felt the stings of their barbs. She just wouldn’t.

      She dismounted at the post office and marched inside. Two other men tittered at the sight of her and she couldn’t help but here the jibes they made as the door shut behind her.

      Why do you figure she wears breeches like that?

      Probably don’t make dresses that go up to her size.

      Dresses? She’d have better luck with a tent, maybe.

      Just as the Lord had seen fit to give Jocelyn a thick, corpulent body, he’d also bestowed upon her better than average hearing. Sometimes, it felt like a cruel joke, being able to hear people gossiping about her size as she went about her errands in town.

      When she was little, she’d tried to pray for a different body. She was rotund from birth; her mother was fond of telling her.

      Please, God, young Jocelyn said, the floorboards beneath her making her knees ache as she kneeled. Just take this away from me. Why couldn’t I be like Polly Molston? Or Jennifer McAllister? Anyone else, Lord. Why do I have to be me?

      Her parents had fussed at her when they’d heard that little prayer, even though Jocelyn had overhead them several nights ago fretting because she’d outgrown yet another dress.

      God made you the way you are because he had reason to, her mother said.

      That’s right, her father agreed. God had a plan for you, Josie, and we can’t question him for it.

      But what plan would make me like this? she asked, holding her arms out and feeling like she didn’t even want to touch herself. Jocelyn wished that her body were like a sort of suit that she could just unbutton, untie, unfasten, and crawl out of. That would solve all of her problems — if she could just slip into another body somewhere and leave this one behind to be forgotten.

      We can’t question God’s plans, girl, her mother said. The Lord has reasons we may never understand. All we can do is love and obey him and love one another and ourselves. Now, who’s giving you trouble at school?

      It would’ve been easier for Jocelyn to tell her mother the people who weren’t giving her trouble — the teacher, most of the time — but she kept her mouth shut and her head down. The last thing she needed was her mother or father marching over to the house of one of her classmates and telling the other parents just what had happened. If Jocelyn weren’t a pariah now, she most certainly would be after that. Life would be completely over.

      Now, though, Jocelyn was taking matters into her own hands. She’d prayed about it extensively, asking God what her future was going to be. Was she going to be alone and ridiculed for the rest of her life? Or was she going to try to do something about it, try to make some kind of new future for herself that no one could take away from her?

      It had been on a trip to town, some errand that she had to run for her parents that she couldn’t remember now. That was how she got the first inkling of what her future could be.

      There had been a bulletin posted in the post office advertising for mail order brides.

      Embark on a life of adventure, one line had read.

      Embrace a new life elsewhere with the man of your dreams, another had urged.

      Jocelyn wasn’t sure that either of them had exactly swayed her to make her decision. It had been perhaps the mention of elsewhere, as in, anywhere but here that had piqued her interest. If she could leave this town, perhaps she could go somewhere where they didn’t ridicule a woman just for riding a horse or wearing breeches when she did it. She owned dresses, but she just didn’t like wearing them while she rode.

      Therefore, she’d written a letter right there on the spot and posted it. Now was the time to seize her future. She was ready to get out of here and try to restart her life.

      To Whom It May Concern:

      My name is Jocelyn Winger and I am writing to inquire about your mail bride service. I could write several pages about why I wanted to become a mail order bride, but I think

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