Reborn: Help My Sister Seize Back Her Destiny
It wasn't until twelve years after my sister, Abigail Ritter, died that I learned the truth: the year she turned eighteen, she hadn't simply gotten married.
My parents, Dennis and Rhonda Ritter, had taken an 18,000-dollar bride price and promised her, freshly accepted to college, to a twenty-nine-year-old man.
On the day she ran from her wedding, she hid in a haystack outside town. And I, six-year-old Aaron Ritter, was the one who found her first.
Holding up two pieces of candy, I shouted excitedly toward the house, "Mom! I found Abby!"
Four months later, my sister died in her husband's family's home.
Everyone said she'd just been born unlucky.
Then, twelve years later, I found a lette