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Critters of Mossy Creek Book Seven, The Mossy Creek Hometown SeriesMayberry with SquirrelsSeptember 2009, Bell Bridge Books www.bellbridgebooks.com
 
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” —Roger Caras 
 The Mice that RoaredPart One Jayne ReynoldsOdd, isn’t it, how things and animals and people come into your life. While it’s happening, it seems rather random. You make love to your perfectly healthy husband and a monthlater, he dies of an aggressive cancer we didn’t know he had. Yet 
 
somehow you wind up pregnant. You feed a poor, pitiful cat that showsup at your door. You unwittingly start a feud with the owner of the bakery next door to your new coffee house the first day you open. The next thing you know, you have a pet for the next twenty years, you have your husband’s son, and you wind up buying the bakery andhiring the owner who has become a dear friend.It seems to me that when you look back over the years, you can seehow all the pieces of your life’s puzzle fit together and you get the distinct feeling that each event was meant to be.Looking forward, life may be a box of chocolates, as Forrest Gump’smother purported. But when you look back, you realize life is a mosaic. Though you think you’re making random choices with each piece youplace in your life’s work of art, in the end you have a complete picture,and you understand that each one of those pieces was destined to be in just that spot. Take my moving to Mossy Creek a few years ago, for instance. At the time, I was operating in a fog of grief over my husband’s death, and Ididn’t much care where I was. I just couldn’t stay in the place where heand I had spent so many happy years. Yet, what I thought had been a 
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Debra Dixon of BelleBooks

Number Five at Kindle now: MOSSY CREEK

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