Description The full story of the feature movie "A Dance For Bethany" with character development, in depth story lines and more. Compelling story of how one person can truly help another...and receives more than they give in the process. Introduction: Truth, no matter how long it stays buried will always find a way to surface and when it finally does it brings something beautiful with it. It has a magical way of bringing us back to the place of purity, the place where life is untarnished. I was determined to find a way to tap into my soul and find the courage to come back to my own state of purity. I found myself in the place of having everything yet having nothing. Outwardly it appeared that Abbey Fisher was in the “happy” crust of American life but what the world saw was not the real me and that made me feel so terribly dirty. To be at peace with myself was only a dream. For the first time in my life I think I was beginning to understand what all the fuss was about being true to oneself and the reason that so many are on a journey to find themselves. I had not been, but the finding I discovered wasn’t difficult at all…it was the staying true that would become my nightmareBecoming involved with Bethany would put me to the test more than once. When we first looked at one another eye to eye the tiny spark of purpose that still glowed in my gut had become ignited. I didn’t even know if I’d see her again but there was a yearning in her eyes that said, I need you and I often wondered if she ever noticed that my yearning said, “No, I need you”. James and I were drawn together by our shared idealism. His goal was to be a Civil Rights Attorney in order to help the people who had been dumped by the system. I wanted to be the Reporter who did the stories on the people who had been dumped by the system. But somehow along the way to achieving our dreams we became entangled in the politically correct web; a way of thinking that somehow contained a power to cover the eyes of the proponents so as to neatly disguise the differences between good and evil and to tolerate any and all types of behavior ultimately covering the reality of life. The very system that we set out to change had subtly changed us and over the years our idealism was tossed aside, or perhaps it was snuffed out during our quest. The Senatorial race was heating up and that always gave reporters ample opportunity to dig deep for good stories and this year would prove to be no different. Our State Senator had made a trip to Asheville and James and I were to host a campaign fund raising party for him. I didn’t have much choice since the Senator’s Assistant, Josh Carrelli, was James’s Senior Law Partner. For the first time in our marriage James and I were on opposite sides of the fence. That’s when I realized how much of myself, how much of ourselves, we had let die and I was hoping it wasn’t too late to resurrect us. Way down in the pit of my stomach the real Abbey was screaming to get out. I felt like I had been buried alive. I knew inside what my passion was and also had enough sense about me to realize that it was the staying true that would be my savior – my deliverer. Bethany became my truth and my courage. In her I saw the wounds of humanity. She wasn’t just a feather in the wind, another life to let fall by the wayside. Truth was about to be revealed; secrets that had been kept buried for nearly half a century and the lid began to slide off with one simple inquiry: “Mom, tell me about your childhood”.
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