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    Beatty's Story
    Beatty's Story
    Beatty's Story
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    Beatty's Story

    By Susan Awkin

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    Beatty was sent away from home at a very early age.
    With no physical contact with close family,one summer in her middle twenties, she is asked to spend her summer break with her family.......
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateSep 30, 2011
    ISBN9781465366238
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      Beatty's Story - Susan Awkin

      CHAPTER ONE

      The peaceful hum of the motorway beneath Beatty’s car changed as she turned into the country lane, the cobbles and grit crunched beneath her wheels.

      As Beatty drove she gazed, it all looked the same, the swaying wheat fields like a canvas that had been painted by a famous artist, Monet or Van Gough!

      She had to put the top down on her car as the weather had started to change for the better,

      Beatty found this part of her journey quite distressing, not really knowing why?

      She had to tie her hair back as the gentle breeze swept it over her face, while driving.

      As she drove down the long country lanes that led to her grandparents home, she thought back to her childhood and a chill came up the back of her spine tingling her neck as the little hairs started to rise one by one, her stomach started to churn!.

      So many questions unanswered? Beatty couldn’t make out why she felt this way, as she had done as a child?

      She checked her makeup in the car mirror noticing as she had gotten older, there was a marked resemblance to her mother and grandma, the blue eyes, the small turned up nose, the opaque skin and she had never needed lipstick, her lips always looked pale pink. It had taken her a long time to decide if she wanted to spend summer with her family? She had been so puzzled as a child and so bewildered in this house she was going back too.

      Always running away from the house or being pushed out the front door with Hurry! Hurry!

      As the house came into view she gasped! How small it seemed! It was a long time ago and her life had changed immeasurably.

      She stopped the car for a few moments and sat and wondered, now she was here, what was all the fuss about, but still her stomach churned?

      She sat staring at the house, she had had happy times there too.

      Beatty had gone away from the family home very early on in her life about six or seven years old.

      Boarding school to her meant holidays with strangers? What had she done that her family didn’t visit? Always thinking it must be her fault, upset, miserable and homesick!

      College then came, university, she came away with a degree in design, no one came to her graduation and her capping was such a lonely time.

      Watching all the other students celebrating with there families, made her get a tough outer skin, which had become even tougher over the years!

      She had joined a fashion house in London as an apprentice, working day and night to make her way up,

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