By Debbie Macomber
Transforming into up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, have been awfully shut -- till one fateful occasion drove them aside. After highschool, Cassie ran clear of domestic to marry the incorrect guy, throwing away a school scholarship and breaking her parents’ hearts. To make issues worse, Cassie had continuously been their father’s favourite -- a sentiment that weighed seriously on her sisters and made Cassie’s activities even more durable to bear.
Now thirty-one, Cassie is again in Washington, dwelling in Seattle together with her daughter and hoping to depart her previous in the back of. After finishing a tough marriage, Cassie is again on her personal ft, the items of her lifestyles slowly yet definitely coming jointly. regardless of the strides Cassie’s made, she hasn’t been in a position to make peace together with her sisters. Karen, the oldest, is a hectic spouse and mom, balancing her profession with elevating her young children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mother whose husband indulges her each whim. Then someday, Cassie gets a letter from Karen, supplying what Cassie thinks could be a probability to reconcile. And as Cassie opens herself as much as new probabilities -- making amends along with her sisters, discovering love once again -- she realizes the facility of compassion, and the promise of a clean commence.
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INTRODUCTION Research into the course of the demographic transition in Europe has, since the mid-1960's focused in particular on the role of nuptiality in the process of fertility decline. Attention has been directed above all to the follOwing three questions: - Has there been any relationship between the trends of nuptiality and fertility in the Western world, and if so, in what direction? - Have there been attempts to manipulate age at marriage in order to influence marital fertility? - Has there been a direct relationship between the spread of birth control within marriage and the age at marriage and proportions marrying (Heeren 1973, p.
