She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left with her. As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left dead and buried, or at least buried. We can bury the past, but it never really dies. The experience of that winter has grown on my soul like ivy climbing the outside of a home, growing until it begins to tear and tug at the brick and mortar. I pray I can still get the story right. My memory, like my eyesight, has waned with age. Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older. This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days. Things that never should have been hidden. And things that should have.
- ISBN10 160285310X
- ISBN13 9781602853102
- Publish Date 1 November 2008 (first published 7 October 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Center Point
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English