She wasn’t quite sure when she had drifted off to sleep; but she was grateful that she had got through till the next morning without even a hint of a nightmare. Although she had awoken feeling comfortable and relaxed, it wasn’t long before she was off on another guilt trip. Thoughts buzzed around in her head, and while she easily asked herself the same old questions, Judy still wasn’t sure of the answers. Should she go to the reunion? What if Ian was there? What if Ian wasn’t there? Was she being disloyal to Bruce? Should she have been spending more time remembering Bruce, who she married and spent a happily married life with; rather than Ian, who she had loved and lost all in the space of a few years? This last question prompted her to recall her Grandma Brown’s attempt to console her when the relationship with Ian was unequivocally accepted as being over, for good. “Never mind love; better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
