I Laugh and My Heart Is Breaking

Lisa a young woman digs into a dusty box that was retrieved from the attic and finds a treasure trove of manuscripts and letters.</p><p>Fascinated she obtains the permission from her Godfather Henry a retired teacher and writer to read select and eventually publish her find.</p><p>The selected manuscripts deal with a vast variety of life's aspects and foibles.</p><p>The discussion of three fogbound intellectual sailors on the Maine coast delves into deep thoughts while a story of two teenage boys in rural Germany will put any reader into stitches.</p><p>Very sensitively <I>A Concert</I> interprets a Dvorak string quartet and is complimented in the same mood by a narrative poem <I>Sonata for Guitar and Gardenia.</I></p><p><I>The sergeant laughs and laughs</I> explains how laughter may be unhealthy yet it may serve as a pressure valve that helps to handle the stress of combat.</p><p>The author could not possibly find a more appropriate and more intriguing title for this book than: <I>I Laugh and My Heart Is Breaking</i>.