“Sebrings love once, Mark. Hopefully it’s the right person, and we have a lifetime together.”
Was she thinking of her brother’s failed marriage to a woman who placed the memory of her deceased husband and the kids he’d given her above him?
How must it feel to love someone who didn’t love you in return?
I shrugged it off. That was pretty much make-believe anyway.
I tried to remember what it had been like when it was my father, my mother, and me, but he’d left when I was very young, and my memories of that time with him were vague. Had my parents ever cared for each other like that?
“And if it isn’t?”
“We go on. We survive.”
“My old lady couldn’t remain faithful for more than a day, if that long.”
“Are you saying you believe the ability to be faithful is in the genes?”
“Nature versu
