Alice B. reviewed on 2/25/2013 + 3563 more book reviews

Poor Anetka comes to the US at 13 years old to marry a much older man whom she neither knows, nor does he know her. THE husband pays her passage and a young soldier whom she falls in love with. She marries the husband who pays no attention to her except for a few moments every nighty in bed. He pretends that she is his dead wife. Meanwhile she cleans, cooks and scrubs. HE has two delightful little girls whom Anetka grows to love and they both love her. She is widowed and to make ends meet she turns her home into a boarding house for the miners. Life gets happier and she marries her young soldier and together in love they raise her two stepdaughter and have a child of their own.

Beautiful gift copy.

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