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Like Letters Written in the Sand, Part Twenty Four
Anna-leis was grateful to be alive, and realized that the crash that had very nearly killed her, the crash that had taken her legs, had given her more. She had come to realize that she loved Clarence, and loved her, he had showed her time and time again that he was worthy of her love, but it had taken a near tragedy to open up her eyes. As hard as it was, as much as she grieved over the price the drunk driver had made her pay, she knew a life without Clarence would be a thousand times worse. If she and Clarence weren’t together, she wouldn’t be preparing to become a Mother to twin girls, they wouldn’t be signing adoption papers, and she wouldn’t be building a career for herself, if it hadn’t been for Clarence’s encouragement she would probably still be hid away, struggling with the way she thought she looked.
Everyday Clarence would wake up, smiling at Anna-leis, he would remind her how beautiful she was, allowing her to forget for a time about the scars that marked both the inside and outside, he scars you could not see, the ones that cut soul deep were the hardest to heal, harder to deal with the amputated limbs, or surgical scars. The scars that her parents had caused, were far more damaging than that of the drunk driver who had nearly killed her, because it was as if her parents had slowly tried to kill her spirit, and they very nearly had, but with the…
