This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.