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Eden Revisited
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...
...the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
To all appearences, Adam and Eve were the perfect couple; happily married with two beautiful children. But things aren't always as they seem. Adam was slowly withering away inside. When circumstances offer him the chance to finally free himself of the prison of lies he'd locked himself into, he takes the chance and nothing will ever be the same. Can he still find true love or did he wait too long?
Everybody has a story, and for the first time, here's Adam's. Find out how he came to be where he is when we first meet him in Bleeding Hearts. Learn what made him the man he is.