Hi Friends, Before I begin the next chapter, I wanted to pause here and talk about the power of a story. As you know, I love to hear people’s stories. In fact, my favorite genre of reading is biographies.  I’ve read lots of them.  Not because of who is the subject necessarily, but because I like read their story to…
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 Come to Me, all you who are weary…and you will find rest for your souls. (The Bible, book of Matthew, chapter 11, verses 28-29)   ”Chemical Imbalance and Clinical Depression” The words enveloped me like warm water soaking into my cold skin. It made sense.  After depleting my body of hormones with the Lupron and then overloading my body with…
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If you are new to Small Town Girl, I am sharing the backstory to the photo I posted in December.  You can read the posts leading up to this post by clicking here, photo post, post 2, and post 3.  This is post 4 in the series.   We met with the IVF doctor to discuss our options.  We told him that we…
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Hi Friends, I wanted to pause here for a bit and talk about the power of a story. As you know, I love to hear people’s stories. Stories are a way of looking back to see what was happening, how it impacted an individual, and those around them, and how it changed to the person.  In fact, my favorite genre of…
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      Hi Friends! Here’s Chapter 3 in the “Backstory of the Photo” series.   If you new to Small Town Girl, I’m telling the backstory to the photo I posted in December. To read it, click here.  If you want to read Chapter 2, click here.   ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ If I was the author of this story, the next chapter would have been…
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In order to tell the full backstory of my faith walk to The Kid in 2002, I decided to take you back to the beginning where the journey began, 1993. In September 1993, Mr. Small Town and I were married.  He was 31 and I was 27.  We were in love and had dreamy plans about our life together.  We were a double income, no kid…
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