If Wishes Were Horses
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Dad, I still don’t know whether our departed loved ones can look down on us from the afterlife. Even your old friend Reverend Jacobson couldn’t answer that one. But if you can’t see me, don’t worry, because I’m okay.
Wyatt then touched Gabby’s swelling abdomen, and thought about the inherent promise lying within her. At long last, Wyatt and Gabby had finally packed away Krista’s things and turned her old study into a nursery. Like Ram had wanted, that room would soon house new life rather than dusty memories.
We all are, Wyatt thought.
As Wyatt again faced the setting sun, his next sip of bourbon went down easily.
AUTHOR’S NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Equine therapy, or “horse therapy,” as it is more commonly called, is a rapidly growing phenomenon. Such programs are being conducted at increasing numbers of horse ranches and stables, both in the United States and abroad. I want to give special thanks to the staff at Horse Sense of the Carolinas, located in Marshall, North Carolina, for their willingness to inform me about equine therapy.
My thanks and gratitude also go out to my ever patient agent, Marly Rusoff, and to Mary Logue, author and freelance editor extraordinaire.
I also wish to thank my wife, Joyce Newcomb, PhD, for her valuable guidance regarding psychotherapy and Alzheimer’s disease. And, as always, for her never-ending support.
About the Author
After graduating from Colgate University with a B.A. in economics and a minor in art history, ROBERT BARCLAY enjoyed a successful career in business, also serving as chairman of his industry-related consulting group. After selling his business and moving to Florida from upstate New York (and with some prodding by his wife), he was finally able to devote his full attention to something he had always wanted to do—writing a book.
When he isn’t writing, he enjoys weightlifting, practicing Shotokan karate, and going to the beach to do absolutely nothing.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
IF WISHES WERE HORSES. Copyright © 2011 by Robert Newcomb. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barclay, Robert, 1951–
If wishes were horses / by Robert Barclay.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-196688-0
I. Title.
PS3614.E58I37 2010
813'.6—dc22
2010002485
EPub Edition © January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-201165-7
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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