Grad student Andrea is mostly self-assured and quite open to whatever the world might bring her way. She's sensible, but she's got a quiet belief in the supernatural and a daytime interest in studying history, and finds herself surprised to be falling head over heels for the older woman she just met. Liz is thrilled to have made a new best friend. Overjoyed with how well they click, how well her son likes Andrea, how much fun they have together, and how easily she can open up, Liz finally considers it might be more. Blissfully in love, Liz relishes in how all this makes her feel, and how it's almost made her forget that high school boyfriend she's been grieving over for a couple decades. But maybe things are too good to be true? A family dinner brings up questions for Liz. Questions that prove difficult to answer, and possible answers that defy logic and reason.

Eternally Yours

“You’ve never mentioned,” Andrea realized, “but are you religious?”


Liz smiled. “Um, not strictly, no. I believe in God, I guess, but I don’t know if He’s the one and only, or if He’s anything like any of the churches think. I was raised Christian, in a generic sense of the word. Dad taught us the basics of the Bible, but we rarely went to church and he put a lot more emphasis on things like ‘treat other people well’ and ‘be kind’ and ‘love and forgiveness’ than the praying and worshipping and going to church and preaching stuff. Those lessons really stuck with me.”


“Yeah, I know what you mean. My mom’s side of the family is very religious, but Mom said it never worked for her. Dad’s never really put much into it at all. He says loving people is all that matters. Mom often says he’s a Buddhist and just doesn’t know it.”


Chapter 10