A few days before Christmas, David Weathers finds himself hopping a plane to his childhood home in Florida and doesn’t know why. His parents are gone, he has no siblings, yet something draws him on.<br><br>David can almost feel the magic in the air, but then he discovers Jared Acosta, the man who broke his heart twenty years earlier, has moved three doors away. Reluctantly David accepts Jared’s invitation to dinner, only to find that twenty years may not be enough for some wounds to heal.<br><br>Soon David seeks advice from his mother’s best friend Marisol, a vibrant, wise woman who believes in second chances. Can she convince David to take a chance on the man who is working so hard to be near him now? Will he be able to forgive a past that left both him and Jared unlucky in love?

Little Tree

“Let’s travel the world,” Jared said one night in bed. “Let’s see everything we can while we’re young.”


David looked up at him in the darkened room. “I don’t know how easy it’ll be finding jobs for both of us in the same place overseas. You studied Japanese. I took French.”


“We’ll wash dishes if we have to,” Jared said with a confidence in his voice that relaxed David. “We’ll make it.”


That conversation had been only a few months before graduation. They both scored well on the GRE, and David had thought that they would be off to graduate school, although oddly, they had never discussed it. It didn’t matter. There would be time for that. Jared was right. The world was their oyster.


Over the next few months, David spent a lot of time scurrying to find places where they could both get jobs and still see the world. The night they graduated college, after they had sent their families and friends home, David presented his findings to Jared.


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