Trail of Broken Wings

by Sejal Badani

never depend on another person for your happiness. If someone had the authority to give, then he or she had the authority to take away.

you cannot keep someone who has already left you behind.

My daughter is in love with you, I am sure.” She thinks about her relationship with Brent, what defined them. “That is different from love for someone familiar—something I have learned in my advanced years. Love is sometimes demanded, expected when you have blood relations. But to be in love with another, to care for them more than for yourself—that is powerful. And you, you are concerned, worried for her?”