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If Wanda Hadn’t Gone to Fargo
Imagine how every life and every story in the Mountain Women Series might have changed if, at the end of Book One, Wanda hadn’t gone to Fargo with May Rose.
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Wanda was almost 15 at the time. She didn't want to go, but the decision was sudden and unexpected, forced by her Uncle Russell. A rough mountain man—not one we would expect to bend—Russell cared more about Wanda’s future than the land he loved.
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Fiction mirrors life: add or take away one person, and the whole pattern shifts.
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Without Wanda, May Rose likely would not have returned to Winkler. She might have kept moving, searching for relatives, never looking back. She might have led a quiet, purposeful life, caring for children in that orphanage.
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But May Rose followed Wanda back to Winkler, and soon her old flame (Barlow) followed her. Without their partnership the town might never have been rebuilt. Friendships would not have formed in the same way. Individual paths would have turned elsewhere. The children who shaped the next generation would not have been born.
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Without Wanda and Will, May Rose and Barlow, Winkler might never have grown into the cooperative community that carried its people through epidemics, disasters, scarcity, and long winters.
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Of course these people are fictional. But life, like fiction, is built on everyday decisions. In the Mountain Women Series, one reluctant journey set many others in motion.
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Our personal stories evolve in much the same way. Removing or adding one significant person can change many lives.
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It is humbling to consider that, in small or major ways, the paths we choose and decisions we make have a role to play in the life stories of others.
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