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| Did Corinna Kincaid seek to ‘save a sinner’ ? |
Gabriel Wortman was ever so slowly dying from years of being a hopeless drunk : his liver as damaged as his brain.
His mom worried that he ONLY lived on beer, not food.
Many of his outbursts of violence seemed to come after he had been drinking extra hard.
So how on earth did Corinna Kincaid come to marry him : a belief that love can conquer even the stiffest of drinks - or what ?
Because both of her father’s grandparents came from long lines of fervent (WCTU national lecturer level) tee-totalling evangelists*, both back in Northern Maine and later in Truro, NS.
Hardshell Baptists most people might call them.
Her great- grandpa even preached a lot up around Houlton Maine, if you wondering for a reason why on earth Gabriel Wortman would pick that small town to have his illegal guns sent to.
Corinna’s pa grew up on (very) remote Kincaid Mountain with the nearest metropole being Trafalgar NS (joke) : so far back, they had to come out to hunt.
Soon as he was an adult he headed for civilization ; the affluent retirees’ paradise of the Lunenburg South Shore.
The LOVE connection that first drew Corinna and Gabriel together is almost as mysterious as the LOVE connection that kept Gabriel and Lisa together for 20 tumultuous years....
* I should disclose that I am a teetotaller myself - once tried to join a Roman Catholic Temperance Club here in Dartmouth (Catholic teetotallers, yes we exist !) but the few remaining 80 year old members didn't really want a youngster who was 25...
We readily drive though Eastville, the Kincaid family hometown on our way from Seaforth on Eastern Shore to relatives in Westville on the Northumberland Shore. Its remote : I mention Trafalgar is being the next populated place because its (a) true and (b) its a byword in Nova Scotia for being extremely remote...
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