un-romantic valentine's day rememberances

unromantic Valentine's day remembrances

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Edward w Pritchard


Here's an unromantic look at Love and affection.

Poor Mrs. McGhee below who is waiting to hear that her Husband, Miles McGhee, of seventeen years marriage has left her with eleven children and no where to live back in Morgantown West Virginia in 1942. Miles is one of the Men soon to be found dead in a mining disaster in the middle of World War two. But the enemy is not Japanese kamikazes but gravity and expanding poisonous gas causing a mining disaster 1000 feet below ground.

Love and affection has married the McGhee's and given them eleven children. Now poor old Mrs. McGhee faces the future alone.



here's what I wrote before:

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Old time Religion on a Slag Heap

fiction
edward w pritchard

Please God, Oh God what will become of me. Stuck with eleven children and my husband Miles McGhee trapped or dead five hundred feet underground in Osage, West Virginia.  Fifty men already dead, Miles missing these six days in the Christopher mine number three, May 1942.

Who will want me? A widow with eleven children, no face, no looks and no where to go. Will the company let me stay on in the company house?

Best pray for God's help. There is a service over at the mission house in Osage every night.

No, I better go to the revival prayer meeting out in the big tent on the slag heap.

Me with eleven children and no prospects. Better to go find old time religion on a slag heap. I need a miracle to have Miles found alive. What will become of me poor old Mrs. Miles McGhee, tragic victim of too much Love and affection.

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