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Who you will meet |
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Who
you will meet in When the Bluebonnets Come
- Katie Shanahan
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- Whose adult
remembrance of her childhood in the Texas bluebonnet country recalls
her father's sacrifice for his church flock, his stand against the
onslaught of corrupt outside (and inside) influences, and his
struggles to be a good husband and father when he had no father of
his own to emulate.
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- Ethan Shanahan
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- Katie's father, a
former college football star and now the pastor of a small,
struggling country church. He reluctantly takes up the fight against
the powerful forces striving for construction of an
enormous,increasingly-ominous gambling casino amidst the quiet
bluebonnet-strewn fields around Cotton Patch.
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- Lorena Shanahan
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- Katie's mother and
Ethan's wife, the gallant woman who has suffered long both the
physical and mental torture of a crippling accident and the demise
of her once-radiant relationship with her husband.
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- George Washington
Carver Jasper
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- Pastor of the
Macedonia Baptist Church, burned down by arsonists. His opposition
is not limited to them. Some of his own black parishioners revolt
over his decision to borrow the facilities of the largely-white
Cotton Patch Presbyterian Church. And the sinister influences of the
gambling interests coil themselves around him.
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- Clay Cullum
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- Ethan's unwanted
pastoral intern, and the son of his old college flame Angelina. At
first it is debatable whether Ethan or Clay is more anxious for the
younger man to move along to a bigger church in Dallas. In the end,
Clay realizes how much he has to learn from Ethan--and Ethan has
mentored his own pastoral successor.
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- Miz T
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- The old widow whose
dark coke bottle lenses, cane, and godliness comprise the spiritual
compass of Cotton Patch.
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- Jed Schumacher
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- Handsome of face and
form and renowned on the gridiron, he personifies the Homeric hero
adored on autumnal Friday nights by Texas. Katie and most everyone
else are in awe of him, but his broken home has left him with unseen
problems large and small.
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- Graciela Rodriguez
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- The Shanahans'
beautiful neighbor. Neglected and abused by her drunken husband, she
(literally) falls into the arms of Ethan--even as he delivers a
picnic basket of food from his wife, after a tornado devastates the
Rodriguez home and her husband leaves her.
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- Clint Granger
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- Arrogant,
high-flying Dallas entrepreneur of grand and even great vision, but
who represents all that is worst in the city most of Cotton Patch
wants kept out of its county.
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