title: A Season of Love: Our Life in Snowflake Falls
author:  Aretta Gordish 
description: <span>Aretta Gordish and her husband, Timothy, an LCMS minister have four children and always seem to have one or two cats around the house. Aretta is the author of By His Side, a devotional booklet for military spouses. She also writes a blog, thelemonademaker.wordpress.com and works as a para educator at a Lutheran school.</span>
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  When We Fall is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
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  Copyright © 2015 by Marquita Valentine
  
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