•"No," I pleaded, "Don't go." "I have to." "But what about our Happily Ever After?" "You will have yours, I just won't be a part of it." "I can't. I won't" "Of course you can. And you will." "No." He slipped away from in between my fingers like grains of sand. The harder I tried to hold on, the quicker I lost him. And the emptier I felt.• Aurora had never imagined a life without Philip, but now she has to live one that, apparently, doesn't end. At all. *******************