"Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart, too."
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Colin held me through the night. He never let me slip into the abyss. I wept and mumbled, "I don't know if I can live without Sarah."
Colin drew me closer and begged, "My darling, don't say that because I can't live without you." He went into my makeup case and found one of Candy's pills. He handed it to me with a glass of water. "You need to rest, my love."
I swallowed the pill and sleep stole over me.
The next morning, we woke to find downstairs totally transformed. There was a company installing a tent outside with banquet tables. I helped them with the setup,
