"I might joke, but the insides of me are a mess," Caroline Carlyle thought to herself. There she was, a 40-year-old widow and the mother of the bride (their only child), all alone to deal with life and the furniture store business that she and her husband had built together. How her life had changed! No husband and no little girl. How was she going to deal with all the good and evil that will find their way into her new world of a single woman? How could she think of ever marrying again? She loved one man so deeply once. How could she ever love again?
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