Broken Road: A Widower's Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073W1M6CW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 490 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leaving my strict Baptist upbringing behind, I was living my dream of becoming a “hero,” while fueling my ever burgeoning need for newness and more, sleeping my way around the world with no rules and no conscience.One woman, my childhood image of the “girl next door,” changed all that. Trapped to the point that I began fantasizing about her death.Then came the call. Despite her lowly position, she was clearly the kindest and sexiest woman I’d ever met. Trapped by Joan’s desire to bear a child. Trapped by what I recognized as the mundane life of my parents. On call twenty-four hours a day, I never knew when my next mission would be called. Twenty-five weeks into her pregnancy, Joan was diagnosed with leukemia. Me, a superstar staff nurse anesthetist. I was a hard-charging, well-paid, impeccably-educated, high-functioning, award-winning anesthetist and clinical instructor of anesthesia as well as an Air Force captain on my way to becoming a colonel in record time. Beyond that, I worked in a highly
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