Elaine Medasie

Love For Mark Elaine Medasie

In 1956 Nora Davis lived with a man who she hoped to marry. However, when she tells him she is pregnant, he abandons her. She hates him and all men. She doesn't want to keep the baby after it is born, but a nurse mistakenly brings it in--a boy with blonde hair like hers. Nora decides to keep the baby, and names him Mark to remind herself of her mistake. As he grows, Mark looks more like his father, and his hair turns brown. Nora begins to dislike Mark and is verbally abusive to him, while drowning her dislike in beer. When Mark is twenty-six, Nora commits suicide, leaving behind a simple note, "I'm sorry." Two years later the clothing company he works for transfers him to another town. There a waitress at the restaurant, where he eats his evening meal, is nice to him. Two days before Christmas she invites him to her church's Christmas Eve Candlelight service. Before going there, Mark goes to another church's Nativity pageant and afterwards asks God to save him. Later Mark goes to the Candlelight service and from then on he and the waitress become friends and fall in love. Yet Mark struggles with the past that haunts his new life in Christ and his friendship with the waitress.