Forty-third

There Linna was once again, this time unaccompanied and wearing a long flowered dress and very simple hair with a bad bun. For quite some time she had been staring at the ceiling and all those beautiful chandeliers in the airport. Her mother was about to arrive with her father and his family, and she couldn't wait to see them. Longing was a funny thing to her, since she missed her father, her mother, and of course Matthew so much in such a short time. But with other people it was different. Linna believed that the more someone became distant from her, the more she would become distant from that person. And the word longing didn't even exist in that situation.

This happened to many people in her family, close cousins, aunts who said they cared and suddenly became distant. Especially after what happened. Her being left at the altar, to many in her family, was as if she had given reason for a man never to marry her. That was one of the hardest parts to deal with. And she thanked from the