Q: Is there a passage in "Dream: If not for Katie..." that is a favorite of yours or particularly personal to you?
Anita: There is a time late in the story where Katie gets separated from her Indian husband, Sequoya. The white soldiers attack his tribe and take her away. She thinks he is dead and convinces an old friend to take her back to the battle ground to bury him. When they arrive, they find the dead buried on elevated graves and her husband is not among the dead. He is upon the hillside above her. He can not go after her, because he must keep the few remaining members of his tribe safe. I am a pushover for romantic tragedy. The loss of a loved one is the worst loss imaginable. Even though I wrote it myself, I still cry when I read it.
Katie searched all the other graves and prayed for all of them, but she did
not find Sequoya and several of the other young braves. "They have to be alive!"
She was so relieved that Sequoya was not among the dead. She suddenly became sad
and looked at Jack, "Where could they have gone? How will I find them!" She called
out for Sequoya with tears streaming from her face. Sequoya heard her cry out for him and stopped in his tracks. He stood, dead still,
as Muraco looked at him with panic in his eyes. He knew how hard it was for Sequoya
to turn his back on her. He loved her so.Sequoya fell to his knees and cried as he
listened to her tearfully scream his name. Jack reached out and held Katie's arm, pulling her back toward the wagon.She pulled
away from him and fell to the ground. She wept screaming his name, "Sequoya!". Sequoya turned and watched with tears streaming from his face, and his own heart felt
as it was tearing away from his chest.
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