OVERTURES

The search for the love of your life ends when you find that which you seek reflected back to you in your chosen mate, thus making you feel whole. In “Overtures,” read how a post-college coming of age trip to Europe and a chance meeting, develops into the romance they never thought was possible. In “Overtures,” their experiences together allow the main characters the opportunity to seek out love at a time and location when and where neither of them expected to find love, high in the Bavarian Alps, and during the Cold War. Berlin is a city divided and these young lovers find ways to escape from their travels and discover that the truth in their hearts is love. Every day, we all have the chance to identify the fork in the road of our lives. The key is to know when you are standing at that pivotal moment and choose the direction for your life that is the best life choice for you. For Fiona, it was the ability to live out the other fork, the path not chosen, door number 2. During the reading of her diary, while although it was mostly true, she let herself live out the opposite choices already made, and in her mind she knew that she had made the right choices too. Will you?

An Excerpt from Overtures

“So the bottom line is this. I once blew a chance to get to know you better and I’ve never regretted it as keenly as now. There is absolutely no reason in the world why I should expect you to give me a second chance, and things may have progressed with you to the point where you are no longer in a position to accept overtures from fellows. I ask this of you. Let’s not sacrifice our honesty which we have found in our correspondence. Look, I’ll be honest-my heart is thumping as I write this and I don’t know why. I guess it must be important to me. Be honest with me. Tell me to take a hike if that’s the situation-now, so that I can stop embarrassing you with letters like this. (You might show him this so that he knows what a demand his woman is in!) And for heaven’s sake, tell me too if this letter is welcome and the thought of seeing me sometime is pleasant to you. I’ll quit now. I tend to be long-winded. The silly thing is that I don’t even know if I’ll be able to send this to you. The address book I had in Europe is gone but I still had Jane’s address around, so I wrote a nice, polite letter to her and asked if she still had your address. I just said I would like to reopen correspondence with you-nothing embarrassing. I hope you reply but will understand if you don’t. Yours very sincerely, Kurt.”