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there was no return to the cold and lonely shores.
    “So why?” He asked in disbelief, “I don’t understand….”
    “I am sorry, John. I was going to tell you at first, I mean we were just cousins. Then you kissed me and said hello, which changed everything. I didn’t want to push you away. I am sorry.”
    “Wow!! Where are we going with this? I mean, it’s obvious there is no force, no power, not even a single element in the universe that desires for us to be together. So tell me what are we doing here Karla?”
    “I do n’t know!” Came out intensely, “But what I do know is, I have never felt this way about anyone before. Not my ex, not the guy I’m with right now, neither my so called first love, nor anyone else in my family before. This experience is totally new for me. I hate to say it, but it feels so damn good!” She asserted with a breath of relief.
    “Don’t get me wrong cousin, I do…I do have passionate feelings for you. Hold on, let me rephrase that. I am attracted to you, not scarcely, not modestly but a whole fucking lot!” Jennifer Williams’s youngest child swore unequivocally.
    She twirled her hair and rolled her eyes. All this time she just could not cease to blush.
    “You made me smile.” That’s all she said.
    “Karla. This is all so intense and I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but I still do not see a way how this is going to work for us babe. I mean, apart from the fact that we are cousins, you have a boyfriend. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but I am not the type to get caught up in another man’s affair.”
    “Oh bother !” She sighed, “Look John…It’s not my intention to hurt you, but I cannot leave Joe, not right now.”
    “But Karla you said yourself…”
    She interrupted, “John, just listen! Listen to me. Remember when I was telling you how my father had forsaken me?”
    “Karla, your father died, he had no choice!” John affirmed.
    “No John!!” She cried, “He left me! He left me to suffer in this cold cold world all by myself. I was this close!” She made a pinch with her thumb and pointer finger as she uttered her boiling grief. “This close to breaking! I suffered so much and at the very moment when I let go and gave it all in. Joe came from nowhere.” She emphasized, “And saved me! I mean, he literally gave me once again, reasons to live…and for that I am forever thankful…hello?”
    “I am listening.” Was his only response.
    “John let me explain to you what happened. Like I said before, my father died when I was twelve, and it almost killed me. Every night I would cry in my sleep. There were days I would rush out of class to the bathroom, and for hours I would scream silently. It was devastating! And as a result I started to fail throughout school, and in my final semester while I was preparing for my exams, it got even worst and I couldn’t bear the pressure anymore. So I just quit. It made perfect sense too you know. As my mother at the time couldn’t have afforded to pay for the exam fees and I had absolutely no one else to turn to. It was like waiting for a miracle to happen after prayers and faith have failed immensely. Then I tried to attain a remedial job which was futile, and if I wasn’t having it hard enough already that just toppled whatever sanity I had left.”
    John heard the subtle tone and saw the tears falling from her eyes. Eager to offer a warm soft blanket to shelter her from the snow, but somehow the words wouldn’t come out.
    “…John I wasn’t happy, I wasn’t living, and I wasn’t even surviving. I was on the brink of suicide and that’s when Joseph Gibson rescued me. He had been everything to me since then. He had been a friend, a confidant and most of all a father to me. I owe it all to him for teaching me how to appreciate life once again. You know one day he said to me.
    “Karla, no matter how hard it gets, just remember , when in the depths of your sorrows and unhappiness, to look to the