Our daughter is gone!  Don’t you care?!  What is wrong with you?!  Don’t you care about her at all?!”

     Tears filled Ida’s eyes and rolled freely down her cheeks.  She wiped them away almost as fast as they came down.  Isaac took his wife in his arms and kissed her forehead.

     “I do care.  But, she run off and we don’t know where she is.  We just have to wait for her to come home or pray she’ll be safe out there in the world.  It’s all we can do.  We have our other kinner, children, to take care of, chores to do, a farm and business to run.  She’ll come back in time, but we can’t worry about her every second of the day.  Our lives here go on, and we have to p...

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