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Cindy
Follow Cindy from her birth until she is a young adult in this true account of her joyless, stressful life and her despairing search for happiness, in which the faith of a newly discovered step-grandmother offers the only ray of hope.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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July 12, 2024
Another "true account" storybook from Rod & Staff Publishers of Crockett, Kentucky that I ordered from Christian Light Publications, which turns out educational/homeschooling and more recreational-reading materials for Mennonite children, young adults, and families. I'm sorry there's no cover image here, because the cover is....scrumptious, like a chocolate (or mocha)-frosted cake decorated with pink roses, and the spine and back cover are chartreuse/lime-green.
Cindy Marie Cox is born the second child in about two years to a...not-so-happy couple, Richard and Judy Cox. Her birth brings some happiness to the Cox home, but that pesky thing called life interferes, passing out a few wrenching changes, including a slight alteration of Cindy's name. From a young age, Cindy launches a touching search for TRUE HAPPINESS. At times she joyfully thinks she has found it...and then.... But she is determined to find true happiness, and also to see her real daddy again. They may have had only two years together before he had to go away, but they were wonderful, loving years, and her stepfather is not the same kind of man and they don't have the same kind of closeness.
But her stepfather does finally take the "whole family" on a short road trip one summer, to see his mother in Ohio. She is a Mennonite who never stopped praying for him from the time he left home and the Mennonite faith, and she welcomes him, her biological grandchild from him and Judy, and Judy's other children, with open arms and an open heart. And Cindy's heart opens to her stepgrandmother because she seems SO HAPPY, reigniting Cindy's yearning for true happiness. Could it finally be within her grasp? By this time she is a young teenager and has been doing a lot of wondering and pondering on The Important Questions...and has gotten into a few minor scrapes here and there. She's only human and her household is chaotic and stressful. Even when they had somehow ended up living in a brand-new, luxurious house, the magic soon faded--they were still the same people and the same combination of people. In fact, they undergo an event so traumatic that it starts on a Saturday night and when Cindy awakens the next morning it's still Saturday!
But Cindy returns from the closest thing to a vacation she has ever had with fresh determination. Will she ever find true happiness, and if so, how?
Thanks for reading.
Cindy Marie Cox is born the second child in about two years to a...not-so-happy couple, Richard and Judy Cox. Her birth brings some happiness to the Cox home, but that pesky thing called life interferes, passing out a few wrenching changes, including a slight alteration of Cindy's name. From a young age, Cindy launches a touching search for TRUE HAPPINESS. At times she joyfully thinks she has found it...and then.... But she is determined to find true happiness, and also to see her real daddy again. They may have had only two years together before he had to go away, but they were wonderful, loving years, and her stepfather is not the same kind of man and they don't have the same kind of closeness.
But her stepfather does finally take the "whole family" on a short road trip one summer, to see his mother in Ohio. She is a Mennonite who never stopped praying for him from the time he left home and the Mennonite faith, and she welcomes him, her biological grandchild from him and Judy, and Judy's other children, with open arms and an open heart. And Cindy's heart opens to her stepgrandmother because she seems SO HAPPY, reigniting Cindy's yearning for true happiness. Could it finally be within her grasp? By this time she is a young teenager and has been doing a lot of wondering and pondering on The Important Questions...and has gotten into a few minor scrapes here and there. She's only human and her household is chaotic and stressful. Even when they had somehow ended up living in a brand-new, luxurious house, the magic soon faded--they were still the same people and the same combination of people. In fact, they undergo an event so traumatic that it starts on a Saturday night and when Cindy awakens the next morning it's still Saturday!
But Cindy returns from the closest thing to a vacation she has ever had with fresh determination. Will she ever find true happiness, and if so, how?
Thanks for reading.
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