Dawn

  "Oh, let her sleep, Ormand. It's late," Momma would say.

  "You tired, Dawn?"

  "No, Daddy," I would say, even though I could barely keep my eyes open.

  Jimmy was asleep on his side of the car.

  "So? Where shall it be this time?" Daddy asked again.

  "I think . . . an airplane," I said. "Soaring above the clouds."

  "And so it will be. Feel the lift-off," he said and laughed.

  A short while later I really was soaring above the clouds.

  Sometimes, when we dream hard enough, those dreams come true, I thought.

  And I looked ahead toward the long stretch of blue sky and dreamt of thousands of people in an audience listening to me sing.

  Table of Contents

  ANOTHER NEW PLACE

  FERN

  ALWAYS A STRANGER

  A KISS

  MY BROTHER'S KEEPER

  OPENING NIGHT

  TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

  DADDY . . . A KIDNAPPER?

  MY NEW LIFE

  A NEW BROTHER, A LOST LOVE

  BETRAYED

  ANSWERED PRAYERS

  A PIECE OF THE PAST

  VIOLATIONS

  SECRETS REVEALED

  PRIVATE COVERSATIONS

  EPILOGUE