It wasn't that I didn't want to go. I did. I wanted to go with all my heart but I suppose in many ways I was a coward in the end. It was too much. There isn't a day that has passed where I haven't missed you.
The First Time I Said Goodbye ~ by Claire Allan, 2013, fiction (Ireland)
Would you hold on tighter if you knew you were saying goodbye forever? In 1959, factory girl Stella Hegarty finds herself falling unexpectedly for the charms of a handsome US marine based in Derry. Caught up in a whirlwind of romance, Stella finds herself planning a new life in America with her beloved Ray. But when tragedy steps in, both their lives are thrown into turmoil and they come to realize they may have said their first, and last goodbye.
In 2010, Annabel Jackson, reeling from the loss of her father, agrees to accompany her mother Stella back to Ireland to meet her family for the first time. In Derry they both start to realize that sometimes you have to say goodbye to what you thought you always wanted, in order to find what you have needed all along.
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