had been four years. Four years since everything happened. Four years since Leonard left me. He deprived me of the two years I could have spent with him before he died and I never forgave him for that. I waited for him but he never came. I heard nothing from anyone and that only meant one thing.

I was a strong girl right from the beginning, and that was what gave a chance at surviving. When I made him that promise, I never thought I would have to keep to it but he gave me no choice. I kept to my promise, not on the way he might have wanted....