Summer People

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Monhegan Maine:</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> a luscious island located twelve miles from land.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Population: sixty eight. Well sixty nine if you count me Elizabeth Sweet Monhegan's newest resident and retired child star.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When I first step off the boat I'm ready to be charmed by the island that holds the sweetest memories from my childhood. A place so remote that even the pesky media won't bother to look for me here. What I get instead is exasperation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Summer people. It's grumbled like a curse a growl of sorts. No one seems to want me here least of all the grumpy sheriff who seems affronted by my mere existence.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He's stupidly handsome goes nowhere without his beloved golden retriever Bing and speaks in nothing but grunts.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Unfortunately for Fisher Jones I'm not going anywhere. In fact we're neighbors. And his niece Sutton like every other eight year old in America is obsessed with me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Summer in Monhegan isn't at all what I expect but neither is Fisher. I haven't quite figured out why he's so miserable but I'm also not volunteering what I'm running from.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>All I know is the Islanders aren't the only ones worming their way into my heart. Though I suppose it won't matter how I feel if my past catches up to me. Maybe I'm destined to be nothing more than </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>summer people.</em></p>