The Summer We Fell

The Summer We Fell

Author: Elizabeth O’Roark Listening Length: 9h 11m

He was my boyfriend’s best friend—and the bane of my existence. I wanted to hate Luke Taylor. I did hate him. I just never hated him enough. Now, a decade later, tragedy has brought us back to the place where it all happened—my best times, and my worst. Our lives have changed, but that pull between us is just as str...

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D onna’s in her element with the boys here. She enlists me to help her cook and clean and dote on them because she genuinely can’t imagine I’d want to do anything else.

In some ways it’s as if I came to her as a mound of unformed clay, and she’s chosen to shape me into this thing she always wanted: a sweet, choir-singing daughter—a thoughtful and nurturing wife for her son.

I didn’t really have any plans for this ball of clay.

I don’t know why there’s this occasional impulse to snatch myself back.