Mountain Memories  By Kennedy Northcutt ©2011  For disclaimers,
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Chapter 38  She was hovering over a sea of blackness. Just
hovering. Not falling. No. That would be too easy. To just give
in and drop back into that pit of inky blackness. It would be
far too easy just to sink down into the abyss and lose herself-
again. But she couldn't. It wasn't that she didn't want to. She
very much wanted to just let go and return to that black
nothingness.  But she couldn't. Something held her there over
the abyss. Something anchored her in that place between knowing
and not knowing. Something. No. Someone.  Someone's warm fingers
held hers tightly. The hand fit perfectly in hers. It was her
lifeline. It was her anchor in a world turned upside down and
inside out. It grounded her and helped bring her up from the
abyss. She needed to leave the darkness because that hand in
hers was pulling her back to a wo