Coming of age_(5)
The Apple’s were not a particularly religious family. Mr. Apple was a dam keeper for a rural town so they lived in the mountains more than one hundred miles from where the water was delivered. Because the water was for municipal use it was not used for any recreational purpose. There was no swimming, fishing or boating on the lake behind the dam and the only access to the dam and lake was heavily gated. The couple only had the one daughter. She was home schooled. The mountains blocked any TV and radio reception. And her parents were very modest people. Ann grew up a shy introspective girl. She looked a lot like her father in her features. She had dark brown hair that her mother cut into a pageboy style. She had a turned …