Grace, a young woman, leaves the family home to pursue love and happiness. Overcoming guilt, she boards a plane, excited for her new future. The excerpt ends with a poem about following love, embodying the theme of pursuing a new life in a new city.
This poem narrates the evolution of attraction into familiarity and love through the story of Grace and Alex. It details their budding relationship marked by exchanged letters and private phone calls at Grace's home. Instead of attending her usual youth camp, Grace saves money to visit Alex in Melbourne, where they experience the Bells Beach Surf Classic together. The excitement and comfort she feels around him open up new worlds of fun. The poem encapsulates these emotions, highlighting the purity and simplicity of their connection, as well as Grace’s tender hopes for their relationship's future.
Grace, now a young adult, receives a letter that brings her joy. She eagerly awaits a reply from Alex, finding solace in her memories of their time together. Despite chaos at home, she immerses herself in their connection.
The attention and thrill of first attraction. Feelings of vulnerablity and uncertainty together with excitement and pleasure.
Mirroring the beauty and pain of a fragrant rose flower to that of life. Grace's dream of getting a full-time job and leaving home has come true. She has saved her money and she is leaving. Beverley Joy. Book Excerpt - The Wilted Rose Part 3 - The Wilted Rose Sarah had been well for... Continue Reading →
Grace moves to Melbourne, leaving behind the chaos of her strict upbringing, in pursuit of love and happiness. She embraces a new life with Alex, mirroring the beauty and pain of a rose. The fragrant flower becomes a metaphor for her poem enduring hardships to bloom into fullness, just as she does.
Teenage daughter looking for work so she can stop living with her mentally ill mother
Sarah goes to hospital for shock treatment for her depression
Sarah's husband seeks medical help for his mentally ill wife.
Teenage daughter coping with her mother's mental illhealth.
A teenager coping with her mother's mental illness.
Daughter finds mother unconscious on the floor in family home.
The love and trust a daughter has for her father.
The need for community support for families grieving the loss of a loved one.
The death of her baby son and the grief of his young sister.
Introduction: The true story continues with Sarah standing in front of the mirror in a wedding dress. Who is she marrying? What happened between George and Sarah? Did Sarah change her mind? And who is Jack? Beverley Joy Book Excerpt - The Wilted Rose Part 2 - The Rose Blossom: Sarah had seen many different... Continue Reading →
Introduction: The true story continues with Sarah and George feeling comfortable and familiar in their relationship. It felt like the time was right to move to the next level and get engaged. How will Sarah's parents react to George asking them for Sarah's hand in marriage? Will they accept him into their family circle? Sarah... Continue Reading →
Man and woman falling in love for the first time.
Sarah opens her heart's door to his confessed love for her.
Sarah, now a young adult falls in love for the first time.
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