Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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The true story of a 1870's Christian mail-order bride from Sweden who traveled more than 2,000 miles to meet a young handsome Norwegian man who sent her glowing letters and train fare to come visit him. But things didn't turn out the way she expected.

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ABOUT
Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader and researcher. Since 1998, she has worked in churches in the Los Angeles area. She helps heartbroken people find strength, courage, and healing. For more than 25 years she has worked with Christian women and men going through difficult, life-saving divorces, listening with compassion to those who have suffered from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addicted partners, and emotional abuse.

Herself the survivor of a toxic marriage, she walked through her own lifesaving divorce and was a single mother for many years. Today she is happily remarried. She is a graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Bible and Christian Education.

For more information:
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
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What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for serious reasons: a pattern of sexual immorality, physical violence, chronic emotional abuse, felony behavior, family-crushing addictions, or abandonment/neglect.

My Book: "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
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Comparison chart of at-fault vs no-fault divorce: lifesavingdivorce.com/nofaulcomparison