For Your Love by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vanessa Miller
Published: 2019-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

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When Toya arrived home, she went into her office, sat down in front of her computer, and began sending out resumes. It was time for her to get back to work, enough of this foolishness. The armor of God protected her, so she didn’t have to be afraid.

She pulled up her resume to look over it one more time before sending it out. As she read through it, she noticed that she still had information about being the editor of her college newspaper. It wasn’t like she had received any awards for her stellar reporting, and she had no interest in becoming a reporter, so it was time to remove this information from her resume.

Even as she deleted the entry, Toya smiled at the memory of being a writer on the same newspaper that her father had once served as editor. That probably had something to do with them, allowing her on the paper in the first place.

Feeling a bit melancholy as she thought of her father, Toya got down on the floor in her office. She pulled one of the four boxes over to her. The boxes had been cluttering her office, waiting to be opened so she could get her home office organized. She wasn’t in the mood to open the box with pictures, vases, and sculptures that would add the official office look to this room. No, the box she opened was full of memories. It held some of the articles she wrote on her school newspaper and some days, when she was thinking about her dad and feeling sad, she read those articles out loud as if she were reading them to him.

“What’s this?” She picked the packet up, opened it, and put the contents on her desk. “Wow, am I a pack rat or what?” She was staring at not just one, but two of her college acceptance letters.

Toya looked heavenward as she thought about her beloved father. The man who took her to her first dance, who bandaged her knee when she bruised it and who made her and Tia feel like he loved them more than anything or anyone. She looked at the wall directly in front of her desk where her Stanford University degree hung. Toya still remembered the day she made the decision to attend...

Toya, girl, get down here and eat some breakfast. You do not want to take your exams on an empty stomach, I can promise you that.” Her father yelled up the stairs.

“Dad, I don’t have time to eat breakfast. And besides, mom is out of town, preaching somewhere.”

“I made breakfast, now get down here.”

Her father was no cook. She wished he would stop trying. But with her mother’s popularity growing on the preaching circuit, he had been standing in as the house cook a couple times a week lately. Why didn’t he just order in or take them out for breakfast and dinner? That would be better than eating the weird concoctions he came up with.

One morning he actually thought that she and Tia would eat lumpy grits and baloney sandwiches for breakfast.

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