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ing in common. They were too young. They made everyone around them miserableeach other, their son, and their foster son." |
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"All right, all right. I've heard enough. What do you suggest I do now?" |
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"First of all, cease the sexual matchmaking. It won't work. When they fall in love making love will follow naturally. Forcing the issue will only make Christian berate himself for his weakness. And D.J. has had enough loveless sex in her life." |
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"What do you mean? She doesn't seem the kind of girl to sleep around." |
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"She isn't. But she married a man she thought would please her father. A man as incapable of love as she's always been. Their marriage was a disaster. I'm surprised she has any capacity for passion left within her." |
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"I can understand God wanting D.J. to learn to love. What I can't understand is why He didn't help her out before she became so far gone. And why didn't He do something about Christian's problems before now? Why let things get so messed up and then try to fix them?" |
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"Josie. Josie. You're still looking at the situation with your human heart and mind. God has His reasons for everything, reasons we don't understand until the time is right. There are life lessons to be learned, and once they are learned a life can progress. D.J. and Christian would not be the people they are, the two people who are meant to be together, if they had not had the experiences that made them so. Yes, their lives up until now have been sad, but they can be- |
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