Save the Slow Dances for Me

We all go through life second-guessing ourselves. Should we have gone left instead of right? Should we stay in this job or find another? Or should we have taken the road less travelled as Carl Sandberg had suggested?

Looking down at Central Park from her apartment window, Amy felt something was missing. She had achieved everything she wanted except a lasting relationship. She thought of her first love, a man she spurned abruptly. She had been so young and naïve. What if she had made a mistake? Could she change the hero in the middle of the story? Could she ask after eight years for a do-over like in a child's game? Amy knew she couldn't rest until she found Peter again.

When she found him in London, she found a successful gentleman but a broken person. She didn't recognize the bitter man that rebuffed her. Nothing had prepared her for the roller-coaster ride she was to take or the consequences that followed.