Love is never easy. It"s especially difficult when you love a Marine. I knew the risk when I said "I do", but I chose to love anyway. In a flash, he was taken from me, and now I"m alone. Struggling and desperate. There"s no hope, no future. Just the endless cycle of day-to-day survival. But a letter returned could change all of that. Hope and love often come from the last place you"d think to look, when you least expect it. * * * I was a lost, broken soul, tortured by the memories of what I"d endured. When I visited that old farmhouse in rural Texas, all I wanted to do was return the letter. Keep a promise to a friend. What I got was healing. Understanding. The chance to find a measure of peace when all I"ve ever known is war. We both lost everything. But in each other, we found something worth fighting for.