Book Excerpt: Chapter 8 - 1987

“She was totally impassive to the obvious sexual wrong-doing. There were no feelings left, and she  just didn’t care.” 
 “She no longer questioned his whereabouts, and thought, Let it go, the way it goes.” 
The popular joke was: Why did the cat get divorced? 
The answer was: Because he was a Cheetah! 
”Weak and at her wit's end, she went downstairs in an effort to get away from his outburst. She’d then slipped and fallen in the center foyer of the house. Michael had apparently followed her; he’d grabbed her on the floor and put his hands around her throat and started choking her. Looking at his violent face, she’d lay there helplessly thinking, this is it. He will finally kill me.” 

EDITOR’S NOTE 
Rachel had held tight to the goal of raising and putting her children through school. She needed to control this. At this juncture, her twins were graduating from High School. She had put so much time in and soldiered her situation till now. Now it had turned violent. She could walk away! 

It was 1987. Could she upset their college dreams?  
She thought, “One choice might be, “Three sheets to the wind.” 
(No, nothing to do with being personally drunk.) 

That phrase has its origin in the days of “Sailing ships.” At the end of each sail, there was a cord called a sheet. If the sheet is loose, (or drunk), it doesn’t provide control. It could be tightened or loosened depending on the strength of the wind. Could she let it all go loose and let her ship go, or could she tighten it?
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She was all about control and garnering strength…..What will she do?

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