Chapter 58

She reached out her hand to him and said, “Michael, you’ve got to be strong for me. The men I’ve known best have been weak—Daddy and Rickey. I might as well tell the truth about them. They have never faced life. I want to face it with you.” He held her close. “Nothing will be hard if we face it together; all the hardness will seem happiness.” A little later she read to him her mother’s letter. “Do you think we could go back? Grogan wrote that the house was sold, but he didn’t give the name of the new owner.” “I am …