This is a temporary setback, not a failure. Let it be a challenge for you. If you want to be a teacher, your can do it. If you want to be a wife and a mother, you can do that too. If you want to be a teacher, a wife, and a mother, all at the same time, try your hardest!

He knew the way she liked her coffee, her favorite flowers--pink roses--and the meaning of countless things, like the way she straightened up to her full height and raised her left eyebrow when she was holding back on something she wanted to say.

A sideways rain quickly soaked the pair asthey made their way across the street toward asmall diner. Inside, the smell of coffee permeatedthe air and Benny Goodman’s band could beheard from a radio in the corner.

Paul was focused on Ann, alone. “Wouldyou like to dance?”The dreaded question. Not because the personasking was dreadful. Quite the contrary. Shewasn’t immune to his charms, but Ann liked tofeel competent and in control. Dancing was notgoing to make her feel that way.