People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.
Anything worth anything can be found in books.
Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.
My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.