Shadows of My Past

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA>This story is about my life from a child growing up on an island in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:place w:st=on>Caribbean</st1:place> to who I am today.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA>It describes my love for one man who did not have the foresight to reveal his love for me and who left me to go overseas without any commitments and who did not have any communication with me for months. It further outlines how I dealt with my heartache and after feeling defeated how I turned to another man who pursued me and provided the security and peace I needed and whom I married.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA>This is a story of my life with my husband of thirty years. The children we had and our travels and the great life and love we shared. This is the story of my devastation when my husband died and my decision to return to University to fill the gap so I could go on with my life as I wanted no one else.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA>True love returned when my telephone rang in my home and at the other end of the line was my first love who I had not seen or heard from for thirty eight years how we renewed our acquaintances and realized just how much we were still in love with each other. The pain and anguish was again experienced due to his indecisions unavailability and inability to make a firm commitment about our new relationship</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN lang=EN-CA>In this book are our conversations and letters I have written to him but never gave him our quarrels our sorrows and our visits and above all my frustration at his lack of commitment.</SPAN></P>