Friends, Lovers, & the Big Terrible Thing

If you know me, you know I like reading. When I say this is the most shocking opening of a book I have ever read, it means something. If my scholar friends forgive me, I put this next to the feeling I had when I opened A Tale of Two Cities and started reading “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...”