A Heart For The Dropped Stitches
"As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." —The Wizard of Oz, speaking to the Tin Man
I have always refused to let my heart be broken.
During one of the first meetings of the Sisterhood of the Dropped Stitches, our counselor, Rose, brought us this quote. We were just getting to know each other, but we already could see that we each had our own way of dealing with tears. Lizabett Macdonald, the youngest of us at fifteen, cried the easiest. Both Marilee Davidson and Carly Winston, the two oldest at nineteen and eighteen, would blink back their tears for as long as they could and then they'd let them fall. As for me, sixteen-year-old Becca Snyder, I never cried. Not ever.
The four of us were all teenage ... read full excerpt from A Heart for the Dropped Stitches ebook
