Embers

What Do You Do When Your World Falls Apart? "Mom," I cried hysterically, "He left me!" Gasping for breath, the pain searing through my body felt as real as if a knife were piercing my heart. My parents had just visited our home. Charlie and I had been married almost five years with the last two being filled with the turbulence of drugs and infidelity. An earlier separation led to a constructive commitment to try again. A year later I found myself back at square one. How could this be happen...