More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

“Her skin was as pale as milk. She must live on vanilla ice cream, Dinah thought…”

“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what…”

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

“His words stayed with her for years. Each night as she lay waiting for sleep, s…”