At 15, My Childhood Sweetheart Promised Me 60 Sunflowers on My 60th Birthday – He Passed Away That Year, but 45 Years Later, They Appeared on My Porch with a Box That Made Me Shake – Welcome

away this fall.”

“I already accepted.”

“You can defer.”

“I don’t want to defer.”

Mom finally spoke.

“Avery, nobody is saying never.”

“Never what?”

“Never medicine.”

The words made my skin go cold.

She said one year would not destroy my future.

I could work at the family company.

Elliot and I could spend time together.

If something developed naturally, we could continue reading …