If I'd Never Known Your Love

by Georgia Bockoven

  Two lost souls had recognized each other. Almost as if it had been predestined—if Julia believed in such things.

  She backtracked to get her robe. Placing her hand on the nightstand for balance, she stepped into her slippers and accidentally bumped Evan's rose. A petal dropped, and then another. Slowly the rose shed its petals one after the other until they lay in a perfect circle around the vase. It was as if Evan's homecoming had released the rose from its burden.

  Julia stood and stared, transfixed."Okay, Mother," she whispered. "I give up. You were right."

  She gathered the petals and slipped them in her pocket to take downstairs and put in the wooden box David had given her, saving them to pass on to Shelly and Jason one day, maybe at their weddings, or maybe when they became parents. Her mother would like that.

  In the meantime, she had a letter to finish.

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