Or rather, it's like walking on a pile of cotton thousands of miles high, feeling anxious and uneasy.
She was very nervous.
For the first time in her life, Jane Sampson experienced how this emotion of nervousness could tightly grip one's heart, as if refusing to let them breathe.
She was terrified, truly terrified, that the blood relation she sought for two lifetimes would ultimately not withstand over twenty years of companionship.
Thankfully.
Jane Sampson looked at every member of the Carter Family, her eyes slightly red.
Thankfully, she won the gamble.
Every member of the Carter Family cared about her, just as she cared about them.
No one in the Carter Family betrayed her years of searching.
Nor did they disappoint the time she endured quietly for them.
Most importantly, they did not betray her concern for them.
Jillian Carter had already pushed Joseph Shaw away and ran out of the Carter family, crying all the way, but only Joseph Shaw chased after her.
