You were right, you know-coming here was completely crazy. It was irrational. To think I'd choose to go to a town where there's no mall, much less a day spa, and one restaurant that doesn't have a menu? Please. No medical technology, ambulance service or local police-how is it I thought that would be easier, less stressful? I almost slid off the mountain on my way into town!" "Ah… Mel…" "We don't even have cable, no cell phone signal most of the time. And there's not a single person here who can admire my Cole Haan boots which, by the way, are starting to look like crap from traipsing around forests and farms. Did you know that any critical illness or injury has to be airlifted out of here? A person would be crazy to find this relaxing. Renewing." She laughed. "The state I was in, when I was leaving L.A., I thought I absolutely had to escape all the challenges. It never occurred to me that challenge would be good for me. A completely new challenge." "Mel…" "When I told Jack I was pregnant, after promising him I had the birth control taken care of, he should have said, 'I'm outta here, babe.' But you know what he said? He said, 'I have to have you and the baby in my life, and if you can't stay here, I'll go anywhere.'" She sniffed a little and a tear rolled down her cheek. "When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is check to see if there are deer in the yard. Then I wonder what Preacher's in the mood to fix for dinner. Jack's usually already gone back to town-he likes splitting logs in the early morning-half the town wakes up to the sound of his ax striking wood. I see him five or ten times through the day and he always looks at me like we've been apart for a year. If I have a patient in labor, he stays up all night, just in case I need something. And when there are no patients at night, when he holds me before I fall asleep, bad TV reception is the last thing on my mind. "Am I staying here? I came here because I believed I'd lost everything that mattered, and ended up finding everything I've ever wanted in the world. Yeah, Joey. I'm staying. Jack's here. Besides, I belong here now. I belong to them. They belong to me." *
( Robyn Carr )
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