The past never left her and the indelible marks of her traumatic life kept haunting her even as she forayed into a beautiful present and an even more beautiful future. Her thoughts, her actions and her metrics to measure herself were constantly determined by what had been meted out to her in a dark time.
Life was now opening up, love was beckoning and yet in the back of her impressionable mind was the shadow of a love story gone wrong and a fairy tale shattered. She wanted to embrace the future with open arms, yet from the corner of her eyes she saw a little girl who held her hands out to rejection and pain.