The Letter Sweater

For Sandra Mercer, life was supposed to mimic a fairy tail. All she needed was to hope and pray, that the love of her life, a boy she�� grown up with and promised to marry would survive his tour of duty in Vietnam and come back to her. Then they would start a journey that would lead them to a life that was would surely be happily ever after. But fairy tails seldom come true. Faced with a life changing decision, one that will haunt her for the rest of her life, a heart broken Sandra is forced to send a ��ear John��letter to the boy she�� vowed to marry. Thirty years later, after escaping from a dreadful divorce, Sandra returns to the only place that had carried good memories for her, the hometown where she grew up. But some things have no escape route. Along with her, she carries a painful secret coupled with a decision that in one instant, altered all the happiness she�� always dreamed about. Sandra is stunned to learn that Jack Dawson the man she suddenly jilted so many years before, has returned home too.For Sandra, returning home was not just to be an escape; it was to be a new beginning. Settled comfortably in a small townhouse, near the place where she grew up Sandra and her youngest daughter Carla would not be far from her oldest child Jackie, who lives only a few hours way. With a new beginning, Sandra could now blend into the quiet community of her youth, and surrounded by family and close friends, rekindle the glow of those memories into fires that would burn away the demons of her past.But Thomas Wolfe probably said it best, when he suggested that coming back to one�� roots carried with it difficulties and in many cases those who try, find that unless old baggage is left behind, coming home is no place to hide or to start anew. Instead of returning to the womb of her childhood, now with Jack�� presence back in her life, the one thing she thought she never encounter, Sandra is reborn into the reality that has haunted her for a lifetime.Hoping that she�� never have to confront Jack with the truth and finding him back home, pits holes in her refuge and brings those deep feeling to the forefront. Will she ever be able to face Jack with the truth? Will he ever forgive her for what she�� done? And can she ever forgive herself, are questions she�� hope she�� never have to encounter, but now she is faced with either running away from the truth again or meeting it head on.