Christmas in Apple Ridge (59 page)
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Authors: Cindy Woodsmall
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Trace is the stage of soap making when the ingredients are fully mixed and ready for additives and pouring into molds. In the mixing process when the ingredients resemble vanilla pudding, when the mixture is thick enough that dripping some of it across the top of the mixture leaves a trail of drips that don’t immediately sink back into the liquid, you have reached trace.
C
INDY
W
OODSMALL
is a
New York Times
best-selling author with ten works of fiction and one of nonfiction. Her connection with the Amish community has been featured widely in national media, including
ABC Nightline
, the front page of the
Wall Street Journal
, and
National Geographic
. She has three sons, two daughters-in-law, and one granddaughter and lives outside Atlanta with her husband of thirty-five years.
As spring moves into Pennsylvania and Annie spends time amongst the cherry trees with the handsome Aden Zook, she wishes she could forget how deeply the lines between the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite are drawn.
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