She deserved to know, it might even teach her a lesson about love. “It was 1943, long before I met your father, and I was a pretty, young, new nurse. With the war going on at that time, many nurses were needed to tend to all the injured soldiers returning to the mainland, so I too busy for love. But then, I met Chris Watters, a young pilot about to depart for war overseas.” I was so young and naïve, but it was love at first sight. “‘I nursed him when he was stationed at Centralia and had a ruptured appendix’” (Munro …show more content…
“Anxious to finally see Chris, I must’ve “had a worried face,” because I was confused that Chris didn’t come to me, but that he made me come to him (Munro 94). It had been four years since I last saw him, and I will admit that I didn’t look as young and fresh as I used to,” I explained. “Chris wanted to have a talk with me that night, so we went for a drive. I should have seen it coming; the wedding was off.” Amelia let out a small gasp and covered her mouth. I smiled at her and continued, “He said he still cared for me, but that he couldn’t marry me. I had so many thoughts running in my head. I felt like I wasn’t good enough for him, like I wasn’t attractive enough or young enough. I asked him if there was someone else. I didn’t get an answer. The drive back was extremely tense and we “walked off separately” (Munro 117).” This terrible news utterly shocked me, but I was determined to show him how much he meant to me so I stuck around thinking that this disaster could have a