Angela Raines Writing & More

Good-by Again by Angela Raines Copywrite 2010 by Doris McCraw; all rights reserved “Jack, how can you say that?” I asked as we sat at the same table in the same coffee shop we had been visiting each Saturday for the last six months. “Mary, I am sorry but this is the way it has to be.” How many times had I heard those same words? Jack seemed to have problems with committing to anything. In a way that was what had drawn me to him. That sense of spontaneity, of always being ready for the new. “I don't believe it.” I said. “Think of all the wonderful things we shared. The snow, trees, the laughter when we took that trip to the mountains. You are saying that all of that is over?” Every time he went away he was back within a week. I wondered if this conversation was just his way of finding if I would stay with him. This time I wouldn't play his game. When he came back I would say no way Jack. I finally realized that in spite of all the wonderful things I enjoyed about Ja