Hopelessly Hoping

A three-part story |

Through all these years, Edelle never faltered in admiring a man who is a future doctor. For years, she set him as the starting point of her high, impossibly attainable standard. But, of course, lessons in life are not always learned in an easy, light interaction with another. She carried her trauma with her, afraid to talk to another man, she said, unless it was the man who her heart has always recognized: Sorin.