title: Stubborn
author: Keating, Helen
description: Mail Order Laura: Delivery Refused? is a novella about a lonely California rancher who requests a mail order bride, but considers sending her back when she tells him adamantly that she doesn’t want to get married yet -- or ever.
  
  Mail Order Marlene: Learning To Fly, is a glorious story about a man and woman who correspond after he places an ad for a mail order bride in the newspaper, and she responds.  He feels in his heart that she is the one he will marry and start his family with, but as the train arrives in his small California town, he searches and searches for the woman he’s grown to love. Finally, the postmaster points her out and the rancher realizes that he may have made a very big mistake.