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DeAlmonie Madigan
But just as she looked up, she saw the most hypnotic pools of blue she had ever seen staring back at her. Their depth knew no end and it seemed she could see forever in them! They belonged to a tall man who seemed so pleasantly surprised at seeing Elise that he lost him-self for a moment. Before he knew what hit him, he mumbled some-thing under his breath. Confident no one heard him, he tried to regain his composure. He was taken aback by her beauty and could not believe it himself.
"Thank God, no one heard me," he said softly with a sigh of relief.
"Oh but I did," Elise stated, much to his surprise. The stranger's eyes widened and he smiled warmly at her.
He must be a Marine with hair like that! I wonder what he just said? It's obvious now that he's a foreigner. My guess is Russian since he's so big and tall. All of the ones that I've seen on television are big and robust. Whatever he is, he's going to have to explain himself. I want to know what he said. I have a feeling it was an insult, Elise thought as she felt his eyes boring holes in her. From the moment their eyes met, he was completely captivated by her, and didn't care who knew it!
Heaven help me! They don't make women this beautiful back home! Aye, her skin is so smooth and so flawless! I'll bet it's as soft as it is lovely, he thought, as he tried not to stare but failed miserably at it. She noticed his eyes seemed to follow her everywhere as he smiled at her and then approached the counter.
With Love As Our Guide
When her mother came to sit beside her, she put her head on her shoulder as she had done so many times when she was little. Elise put her arm around her shoulder holding her closely. Before she knew it, DeAlmonie's sniffles grew louder and louder. She tried to hold them in, but alas she could not. She held them in as long as she could but now her fountain of tears flowed uncontrollably now.
"Oh, Mama! I just don't know what to do!" she sobbed as her mother pulled her closer cradling her with both arms now.
"It's okay. It's okay. Let it out. Mama's here and I'm not going anywhere. Everything will be fine, just..." then suddenly something happened. DeAlmonie had reached her breaking point.
"No, it won't! I'm not like you! I'm not strong like you, Mama! I never have been! My husband was beaten so badly that it took two paramedics to work on him instead of one. He could have died and now he's blind, too. I don't know how to deal with that! It's just too much. It's too much!" she sobbed uncontrollably again as she stood before her mother completely broken. Elise pulled her into her loving arms and cradled her daughter's towering frame close to her just as she did many times when she was a child. She stroked her daughter's hair away from her face as she patted her back gently.
"Shh, shh! There, there now! The Lord hears you and he'll never let you down, never," she reminded her. Elise drove that point home because she didn't want her daughter to lose faith. Elise knew that God would never let her daughter down.