title: Acacia Grove
author: Long, Lydia Susan
description: Wisps of hair that defied entrapment flew around her face at will or nestled at the nape of her neck. Flashing brown eyes revealed her mood at any given moment. They made a stunning couple for the three years they had been together. He was tanned, blonde, and solidly built. Grey eyes complemented a firm jaw and lips that seldom smiled. There was no depth in their relationship. No anchor for when the winds of daily living shook the core of their reality. She had left five years ago, sensing that her husband’s newfound money maker was nothing more than legalized murder, and Carolyn Anders wanted no infant’s blood on her lily white hands. Her society friends and members of the different civic organizations she belonged to had sparked some pretty hot debates over this issue. Majority ruled that God’s wrath was most likely about to fall on a certain abortion clinic. Carolyn could no longer withstand the disapproval of that majority and made a deliberate, well thought out decision to divorce her husband on moral grounds. It had been a convenient out, and she quickly regained the loyalty and friendship she so desperately needed in her self-serving, shallow existence.