To Dream Again (2013)
“Mara added up the column of numbers again and came up with yet another total. Frustrated, she set down her pencil and leaned back in her chair. It was no use. She just wasn't concentrating.
She glanced at the clock. Half past seven, and she'd only ploughed through one tenth of her day's paperwork. She picked up her pencil.
Don't you have any dreams, Mara?
She'd had her dreams once. She'd dreamed that James would stop dragging her and their daughter all over the world and settle down.... When she'd realized that dream was just a fantasy, she'd formed another.
She had dreamed of her own home, a home with blue shutters and window boxes of red geraniums, a paid-for home that nobody could take away, with a huge kitchen and a full larder so her daughter would never go hungry. But that dream, too, had turned to ashes, leaving her with scars much deeper than the ones on her hands.
Husbands left, homes burned down, and children died, and it was just too painful to begin again.MoreLess
She glanced at the clock. Half past seven, and she'd only ploughed through one tenth of her day's paperwork. She picked up her pencil.
Don't you have any dreams, Mara?
She'd had her dreams once. She'd dreamed that James would stop dragging her and their daughter all over the world and settle down.... When she'd realized that dream was just a fantasy, she'd formed another.
She had dreamed of her own home, a home with blue shutters and window boxes of red geraniums, a paid-for home that nobody could take away, with a huge kitchen and a full larder so her daughter would never go hungry. But that dream, too, had turned to ashes, leaving her with scars much deeper than the ones on her hands.
Husbands left, homes burned down, and children died, and it was just too painful to begin again.MoreLess
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