Peter Ridgeway, age 26, intern, and Laura Pund, age 18, student nurse, meet in 1951 at Fort Dodge Baptist church in Fort Dodge, South Carolina. They are good-looking, smart, and highly motivated; however, they come from different social and educational backgrounds. Laura is from the cotton mill village of Hudson Mills, South Carolina. Peter comes from a middle-class farm family in the Midlands section of the state. They develop a warm, close relationship, which ends abruptly in September when Peter hurts Laura by saying, ...
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Peter Ridgeway, age 26, intern, and Laura Pund, age 18, student nurse, meet in 1951 at Fort Dodge Baptist church in Fort Dodge, South Carolina. They are good-looking, smart, and highly motivated; however, they come from different social and educational backgrounds. Laura is from the cotton mill village of Hudson Mills, South Carolina. Peter comes from a middle-class farm family in the Midlands section of the state. They develop a warm, close relationship, which ends abruptly in September when Peter hurts Laura by saying, without serious intent, that he has always pictured himself as marrying a college graduate. This is a novel about the love, struggle and growth of two likeable and attractive people. They deserve the stability they gain through faith in God and a desire to give of self to see the other grow and progress. One can learn a great deal from these two.
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