ISBN: 0-88739-431-0
136 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Price: $13.95
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Geriatric Parenting
Daniel Panger, Mary Ann Miner
Daniel Panger's wife Mary Ann wants to adopt a baby. Daniel will turn 63 in a couple of months-a grandfatherly age! He fights Mary Ann with logic, pleading the blessedness of their bond as a couple-two being just the right number. But he relents, knowing that she will hold it against him if he doesn't acquiesce to her maternal imperative. Sarah becomes number three and Daniel becomes the primary caretaker with physician Mary Ann off to the hospital each day. Bottle-feeding, burping, changing diapers, and extracting objects from an infant's mouth gradually weaves a spell on Daniel. He finds he adores his little baby girl. Maybe three is the perfect number, after all. Then Mary Ann announces that Sarah's birth mother is pregnant again. What does Daniel think of the idea of having a son? It's almost too much for a guy in his late sixties. But then again…
Bio: DANIEL PANGER is also the author of Decameron 2003 (Creative Arts, 2003) and Hard Times: The Lost Diary of Mrs. Charles Dickens (Creative Arts, 2000).
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