I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could ha…”

“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval v…”

“It was the oldest friends who mattered most. With each passing year, Paulette r…”

“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics t…”