Chapter 9

My mom and my dad had been childhood sweethearts. They were both brilliant students, and from elementary school through college, they always managed to get into the same schools. Their love carried them toward each other, and they married as soon as they graduated from college. Their love was so beautiful that even Heaven seemed to envy it. The year after they married, my dad rescued a little girl who had run into the middle of the road. The girl survived, but my dad breathed his last before the...