Finders Keepers
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and year out. And I got some really great advice. Here.” She scrawled Helena Boxer’s phone number on the back of a business card and handed it over.
“Did you ever cry over whether a cracker would undo a week of dieting?”
“Oh, I have been there.”
They walked out of the gym together and Marissa waved a cheery good-bye, smiling so hard her face ached.
Dear Dad,
I was called a skinny bitch today. I hope you recognize me when I eventually join you. Not for a good long while, I hope, since I intend to spend at least the next six decades of my life figuring out new ways to amuse and exhaust Linda. I know you know what I mean.
Love, Marissa
P.S. Mom sends Linda and me anniversary cards. Now she’s asking where the grandchildren are.
The rock bit into her fingers but the air pumping into her lungs was sweet and powerful. With a final gasp, Marissa pulled herself over the lip of the steep incline, then clambered to her feet to survey the seemingly endless ranges of mountains. The visibility was so clear that she felt she could touch both near and distant peaks.
She tore her gaze from the profound beauty of the landscape.
What a dilemma, she thought. The snowcapped Rockies or my lover’s eyes? As the luminous topaz gaze met hers she knew, the way she always knew, that she could spend all her life looking into them and never find anything to compare.
“Your turn,” she called down to Linda, thirty feet below her. “I know you can do it.”
“I love you,” came the answer, then Linda began to climb.
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Table of Contents
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part Two
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part Three
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15