The Waiting by Cathy LaGrow
Sixteen year old Minka's days were filled with her work on the farm, up early to milk the cows and doing chores throughout the day. In the summer of 1928, she had the rare opportunity to take time away from her chores on the farm and go on a picnic with her sewing class, where she would wear a special dress she had made and socialize with some of the girls who were in her class. Things did not go as planned, as she went for a walk around a pond in the park, a stranger cornered her and then assaulted her.
Minka was young and innocent and thought that babies came by stork, so it was unbelievable and confusing when she discovered that she was pregnant. Whisked away from her family and rumors that would surely come, she stayed with an aunt for a few months and then the "Lutheran House of Mercy" where she was asked to do the impossible, give her precious baby girl away.
This story tells the heartache and longing that Minka felt over the years and how almost 80 years later, the impossible happens.
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