“I am not ready….and now I feel as if I never again will or even can be,” she replied, afraid and confused but risking to speak with open honesty.
“Well,..I guess it’s up to me to help you feel differently,” he countered as an eyebrow quirked impishly but seriously.
And for the first time, she felt a glimmer of hope begin to wtiggle out from the rubble under which it had been burried by life’s prior catastrophes.
