Losing Gabriel

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either

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Text copyright © 2016 by Lurlene McDaniel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: McDaniel, Lurlene, author.

Title: Losing Gabriel : a love story / Lurlene McDaniel.

Description: New York : Delacorte Press, [2016] | Summary: When baby Gabriel's health takes a turn for the worse, the lives of those involved are forever changed.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015014174 | ISBN 978-0-385-74421-8 (hardcover) | ISBN 978-0-375-99155-4 (library binding) | ISBN 978-0-385-38399-8 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Nursing students—Juvenile fiction. | Unmarried mothers—Juvenile fiction. | Unmarried fathers—Juvenile fiction. | Premature infants—Juvenile fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Juvenile fiction. | Grief—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC : Nurses—Fiction. | Mother and child—Fiction. | Fathers and sons—Fiction. | Premature babies—Fiction. | Babies—Fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. | Love—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.M4784172 Lo 2016 | DDC 813.54—dc23

ebook ISBN 9780385383998

Cover design by Erin McMahon

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This book is dedicated to Gabriel—

the baby promised through adoption

but never delivered into our family's waiting arms.

I pray that you are well and happy and loved wherever you are.

And yes, another baby boy came to fill our arms and hearts.

I walked a mile with Pleasure;

She chattered all the way,

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow

And ne're a word said she;

But oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me!

R
OBERT
B
ROWNING
H
AMILTON
(1812–1889)