A Fire Sparkling

by Julianne MacLean

and to beg her to come home to England. Not just because of the war, but because she wanted her sister at her side when she spoke her wedding vows.

On the outside, they were twins. Identical to the naked eye. But on the inside, they were as different as two sisters could be.

I don’t know the man as well as you do, but maybe he’s worthy of a second chance. We all make mistakes, and sometimes a relationship is worth saving, and it can turn out okay in the end. Plenty of marriages have survived infidelities.”

“We could all drive ourselves mad thinking about what could have been. But life happens the way it happens, and there’s no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.”

In the end, he had sacrificed his life for my grandmother—he had died for her—and with that, he gave us everything.