From the novel HAVENWOOD TALES Beginnings by Author, D.J. Houston
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“Be sure you’re back before suppertime, please, Trudie Beth.”
Mama’s gentle reminder faded behind me into the lines of thirsty sassafras and yellow-blooming poplar trees on the north shore of Silver Bear Lake.
I was off to meet my destiny.
Drawn by the gift of instinct and trails of friendly bellflowers smiling at me from their delicate, bending stems, I trekked waist-deep through a grassy field and found myself in a vast wildflower meadow, spread around me like the fragrance of wonderland . . .
Havenwood Tales 