learned, who she once was and who she had now become. She was a woman who had been
given advice from a man she loved, who had taken it and tried her hardest to help heal
herself. She now had a job that she loved and felt confidence within herself to reach for
what she wanted.
She was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a Monday morning or at
night alone in bed. She was a woman who often became bored with her life and found it
hard to get up for work in the morning. She was a woman who more often than not had a
bad hair day, who looked in the mirror and wondered why she couldn’t just drag herself to
the gym more often, she was a woman who had sometimes hated her job and questioned
what reason she had to live on this planet. She was a woman who sometimes just got things
wrong.
On the other hand, she was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew what it
was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and
make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey
Gerry’s final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow
where it led her.
In the meantime, she would just live.
Acknowledgments
Thank you, Mom, Dad, Georgina, Nicky, all my family and friends.
Thank you, Marianne Gunn O’Connor.
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Thank you to my Hyperion editor, Peternelle van Arsdale.
Copyright 2004 by Cecelia Ahern
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