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    Forsaking All Others
    Forsaking All Others
    Forsaking All Others
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    Forsaking All Others

    By Darrel Bird

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    A woman joins a cult and almost loses her husband over it as she learns what this marriage vow means. She is desperate and fearful as she attempts to reclaim her marriage to the man that she loves.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMay 31, 2011
    ISBN9781458084347
    Forsaking All Others
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Part 1

      Gene Hayden twisted the car keys savagely in the lock as he opened the car door to head out to the comedy club. He was a comedian, for goodness sake. How was he supposed to do a comedy act with this going on? His wife, Marla, had quit talking to him. She was spending all her time at that freak church, and he couldn't even get a square meal anymore. He knew his routine was suffering, and he tried to calm down as he turned into the Comedy Club parking lot.

      He was bitter that his wife had quit talking to him and instead spent the day talking to her friends and gossiping. He would walk into the room to say something to her, and there she would be on the phone. He would just turn and walk away. He felt left out, cold, and alone. What had changed? They had a good marriage. It was not a perfect marriage, but they got along.

      Then, the previous evening, Debbie Sorenson, the assistant manager at the club, had asked him for a ride home. He had agreed, and she then asked him in for a few drinks. Why not?  He thought, "Marla will just be on the phone with her freaks!" and the unthinkable had happened! How could this be? How had he come to this? Thoughts whirled through his

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