Chapter Five
Weeks later, looking back, she would realize that the seeds had been planted on that afternoon. The rest of her life went on as usual. She cooked, she cleaned, and she went out with friends. She read, she gardened, and she took long walks early in the morning and at dusk. She finished Unbound, the book about her brief relationship with Ken, and sent it off to the publisher. Without waiting for a response, she set to work on the third book in the series. The writing was fast and easy, but neither of the other books drew her into such warm and tender recollections as Discovering had. She did not put her yearbooks back on the closet shelf.
One night, instead of taking the novel she was reading to bed with her, she decided to read her own first book. Though she’d written the wo
