Deanna Lynn Sletten

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

Darla shook her head, a small smirk on her lips. __ou__e such a mom,_ she told Katherine.Katherine stared at her, puzzled. __ou__e a mom, too,_ she said softly.__o, I gave birth. That doesn__ make me a mom. Not like you.__ look passed between the two women like none they had ever shared before. For a split second, Katherine felt a slight connection. __ell, you rest. I__l check on you later._ She turned and left the room, a funny, unexplainable feeling inside her.

Are you afraid of dying?" "I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares me so much as not being alive anymore. It's missing all the things that I would have seen if I hadn't gotten AIDS. Things like my daughter's graduation, her wedding, my grandchildren. I'll never see those things, and that makes me sad.