“I’m glad you remember. You were breathtaking, the most beautiful and sensuous young woman I’d ever seen.”
“Eddie, I was yours from that moment on. I’d have done anything for you.”
“I felt the same for you. Though even then I was terribly conflicted by the death and destruction I’d seen, and the mayhem that I personally caused.”
“Yeah, I do recall that. The irony is that nurses are particularly vulnerable to troubled men. It’s the caregiver in us. Eddie, your angst was never a problem for me.”
“I knew that, Betty. It was never about you. It was always about me. I don’t think that I was more sensitive or frightened than the average Marine. That wasn’t it.”
“Well, what was it? Eddie, you changed two lives when you made your decision. Don’t you think I have a right to know why the man of
