I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me
As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.
He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.