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A remarkably honest autobiography, full of humour, pain, adventure and dedicated service to God. The first-time author is a Yorkshirewoman now well into her eighties. After a hard, and sometimes traumatic, childhood in rural poverty, she qualified as a nurse in 1964 and three years later, with her beloved husband, went out as a missionary to Santo Domingo de los Colorados in Ecuador, where she was to spend a total of 21 years caring for the physical and spiritual health of the local people, including the indigenous 'Indios Colorados'. Later, she served alongside her husband in Hawkhurst, Kent, where he was a Baptist minister for 13 years. In 1997, they set up together in Ecuador the pioneering Aids charity Orphaids - the book includes some brief stories of adults and children, in different ways victims of Aids or other afflictions, who they cared for. The book closes with a harrowing account of her husband's dementia and death. Throughout, the author is candid about the ups and downs both of her marriage and of the relationship with God which continues to sustain her in the declining years of her present life, while holding out the promise of the life to come.