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      Twice Blessed

      Copyright © 2015 by Barbara Cameron

      Published by Abingdon Press, 2222 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., PO Box 280988, Nashville, TN 37228-0988

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      The persons and events portrayed in this work of fiction are the

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       living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Published in association with Books & Such Literary Agency.

      Macro Editor: Teri Wilhelms

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Cameron, Barbara, 1949-

      Twice blessed : two Amish Christmas stories : Her sister’s shadow and His brother’s keeper / Barbara Cameron. — First edition.

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      ISBN 978-1-6308-8112-2 (e-pub) — ISBN 978-1-6308-8111-5 (binding: pbk.) 1. Twins—Fiction. 2. Individual differences—Fiction. 3. Self-realization—Fiction. 4. Amish—Fiction. 5. Christian fiction, American. I. Cameron, Barbara, 1949– Her sister’s shadow. II. Cameron, Barbara, 1949- His brother’s keeper. III. Title. IV. Title: Amish Christmas stories.

      PS3603.A4473

      813’.6—dc23

      2015023800

      Dedication

      For

       My mom and my dad

      Acknowledgments

      Acknowledgments

      One of the things I love about Ramona Richards, my editor at Abingdon Press, is that she is always so open to listening to my ideas for a new book or series.

      And I love her sense of humor and patience in listening to those ideas.

      I guess I can get kind of wordy. One day I realized I’d gone on for a bit, and I paused and asked, “Are you still there?”

      “Absolutely,” she said with a laugh in her voice. “Just waiting for you to wind down.”

      I try not to call her too often and do that.

      But one day I just had to call her about this idea. You see, I had kind of special parents. Both of them were twins. So, growing up, I heard a lot of stories about what it was like for them to grow up as twins.

      So I called Ramona and asked her if she’d be interested in two novellas about twins. I mostly write Amish books, and the Amish have more twins than the average Englisch family because the Amish have more children. You see, women have children for more reasons than just heredity. Your chance of having twins increases the older you get and the more children you have. On average, Amish families have seven children.

      Twice Blessed: Two Amish Christmas Stories was born from that conversation. I loved taking what I knew about twins and researching more about them for the collection. I was a little sorry I didn’t have more personal experience, such as having twins myself, for

       the novellas, but quite frankly, I found having one baby at a time challenge enough—especially when I had my second baby just twenty-two months later!

      I hope that you’ll enjoy these stories about twins and how they find their identities—and love—apart from the twins they’ve grown up with.

      And I hope that you and the ones you love have a very merry and spirit-filled Christmas this year!

      Blessings!

      Her Sister’s Shadow