more like characters in one of Alice’s books, not real people at all. Alice used to say that even if a book wasn’t to your liking, you will always have learned something from it. So, what had I learned, now that I had read the last chapter and closed the book? I suppose I had learned that I could be strong and perhaps even brave. I had learned that even a broken heart can mend and I had learned that grief doesn’t kill you. I had found love in unexpected places and that love would live in my heart forever. I had my memories, even if they were now no more than shadows that drifted in
