The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

by Diana Marcum

The Fiesta Waterslide Theory holds that once you get to the top of the waterslide, you have to jump, or it’s a sad trudge down.

The first people to get hurt by the drought were statistically insignificant.

She had a new boyfriend now. He was good-looking and hardworking, and his mother had died young.

lol

It was a bad idea, he said. He just wasn’t verbose like me. Verbose. I offered to date him, and he called me verbose.