Oh happy days are here again...the following resonated very strongly with me
“Don’t mind you asking me anything… not anymore. He married a woman what arrived from his country.”
“And you still love him after such?”
“I reckon I’ll always have love him. It don’t ever go away. He always planned to marry, and he said so from my first time laying with him… never hid it, and never lied to me. Truth is, it be arranged by their families when he was still a boy of thirteen, and I reckon he did love her, but he loved me too… maybe even more than her. He said as much, but he was a man who wanted a family above anything else. Can’t fault him for it.”
“It’s good you can think well of him. You’re right the love never goes away, but it can get easier to think on,” Lucas said, his gaze saying something more than his words.
“I believe that too. Never was angered with his choice, but there be plenty of hurt for sure. Lucas?”
Now, on to burning that stub of the sawed off broken branch and the wildings....
Thank you for this Gary and the best of the New Year to you and your readers....