elisabeth-grace-foley

The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts.It was Matthew__ voice that broke the silence, asking, __nd what happened after that?___fter that,_ said Paul, __ame Gettysburg.

Sam was staring at Claire with about the same amazement as his brother had shown. Claire didn__ seem to realize it, or else she was too preoccupied to think of it, but she was the second thunderbolt that had fallen on this long-hidebound household in as many days. First one of the hated race of doctors had been shoehorned in on them as the only thing that might get them out of an already nightmarish situation, and now this matter-of-fact slip of a girl had pushed into it of her own accord. They must have felt like the world was coming down around their ears.