This is Jessie Quince. She 's turning seventeen next week. She lives in a small town out in the middle of nowhere with her sister, Willow, and parents. She plays softball and piccolo in the school marching band, and waitresses at a local café after school and on weekends.
This is Scott Patten. He happens to live in the same small town out in the middle of nowhere. He 's an only child- his mother was a nurse at the local clinic, and his father was a soldier until he died in battle when Scott was thirteen. His mother died in a car crash a few years later. Now that he 's eighteen, he has enlisted in the military to honor his father.
For months after Scott 's death, Jessie wasn 't right. Eventually she broke. In history class, her teacher started …show more content…
They were constantly bombarded with memories and it was too much to bear- the spot in the foyer where they measured their eldest daughter 's height until she grew too tall for her parents to mark the wall, her favorite italian restaurant and gelato shop, the ladder she fell off of at the park when she was six years old. They consulted Willow- and the girl was all too happy to leave. Since Jessie had died, none of her classmates, teammates, or neighbors had treated her the same- all she ever saw on their faces was pity, or discomfort. She hadn 't been the same either- Jessie had been her idol, consultant, and best friend. Being eleven years older, Jessie always knew so much more about the world, and was all too happy to impart that knowlege upon her little sister. And unlike a lot of teenagers, she never snubbed her kid sister- they hardly ever fought, always had plenty of gossip, and any time either of them had anything important, the other was right there to help with outfits, shoes, hair and makeup. WIthout her best friend, Willow was lost. She, too, grew depressed. Her parents noticed (having seen the same things in Jessie), and made sure to get her treatment. Even so, she was upset, and began to understand her older sister 's Blanket Metaphor. And so, the Quinces packed up everything they owned and moved to an eight room cottage in a small, beachside town in North Carolina. …show more content…
And so it was when Willow Quince was in the waiting room of Birmingham: Depression, Bipolar, and PTSD Specialists, that she met Daniel Hill, whom she would eventually marry. He was in trauma counselling, after walking away (physically unscathed) from a plane crash that took both his parents, and his little brother, William. They had been in group therapy together for months, and appreciated each other 's strength and similar stories- and so when they had their first real conversation, she plucked up every last feather of strength and courage she had, and asked him out. Three more years of dating, a two week break, thousands of tissues, and one diamond ring later, they were
This is Scott Patten. He happens to live in the same small town out in the middle of nowhere. He 's an only child- his mother was a nurse at the local clinic, and his father was a soldier until he died in battle when Scott was thirteen. His mother died in a car crash a few years later. Now that he 's eighteen, he has enlisted in the military to honor his father.
For months after Scott 's death, Jessie wasn 't right. Eventually she broke. In history class, her teacher started …show more content…
They were constantly bombarded with memories and it was too much to bear- the spot in the foyer where they measured their eldest daughter 's height until she grew too tall for her parents to mark the wall, her favorite italian restaurant and gelato shop, the ladder she fell off of at the park when she was six years old. They consulted Willow- and the girl was all too happy to leave. Since Jessie had died, none of her classmates, teammates, or neighbors had treated her the same- all she ever saw on their faces was pity, or discomfort. She hadn 't been the same either- Jessie had been her idol, consultant, and best friend. Being eleven years older, Jessie always knew so much more about the world, and was all too happy to impart that knowlege upon her little sister. And unlike a lot of teenagers, she never snubbed her kid sister- they hardly ever fought, always had plenty of gossip, and any time either of them had anything important, the other was right there to help with outfits, shoes, hair and makeup. WIthout her best friend, Willow was lost. She, too, grew depressed. Her parents noticed (having seen the same things in Jessie), and made sure to get her treatment. Even so, she was upset, and began to understand her older sister 's Blanket Metaphor. And so, the Quinces packed up everything they owned and moved to an eight room cottage in a small, beachside town in North Carolina. …show more content…
And so it was when Willow Quince was in the waiting room of Birmingham: Depression, Bipolar, and PTSD Specialists, that she met Daniel Hill, whom she would eventually marry. He was in trauma counselling, after walking away (physically unscathed) from a plane crash that took both his parents, and his little brother, William. They had been in group therapy together for months, and appreciated each other 's strength and similar stories- and so when they had their first real conversation, she plucked up every last feather of strength and courage she had, and asked him out. Three more years of dating, a two week break, thousands of tissues, and one diamond ring later, they were