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Jerry Jenkins and Ron Kennedy

I am currently reading the book The Darkest Night by Ron Franscell. I have always loved to read but the only time I seem to have to do so is as I am going to sleep at night and it seems that the older I get, the more tired reading makes me. Thankfully I still read and comprehend fairly fast so while it seems to take forever to get through a book, it could take much longer. But, before I began this book I had never heard of this story. It is heartbreaking on so many levels! Around 9:00 on the night of September 24, 1973, eighteen year old Becky Thomson was going to run to the grocery store for a few things for her mother and asked her eleven year old sister, Amy Burridge if she would like to go. The two piled into Becky's car and headed to the store in their town of Casper Wyoming. They went to the small store and when they came out they discovered that there was a flat tire on the car. Becky was irritated because she had recently had the tire fixed and she ...