It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!