Too Late For Their Love: The North Star Shines Bright

rned in her mind. Devastated

Sarah took out her applications for the local university. The one

hem into t

eks ago after she' d asked if she could have a new

w coins in an

payphone, the rain still f

chool counselor, the only adult who

on? It's Sa

was so worried about you wi

"That scholarship you told me about? T

d get it. It's a full ride. I was so disappointed when you said your pa

figure out travel and accommodati

itter laugh, a dr

y visits, Ms. Peterson.

arah, I'm so glad you

en years old, sent away to a harsh, underfunde

ad said, his face unreadable

of hunger and cold, learning to rely

e at fifteen, a stranger in h

e, was everything Sarah wasn'

ing Ashley. Victoria, especially, treated Sarah with a thinly

d academically, won awards, catered to their every whim, learned the

t told her about the MIT scholarship,

lutched her chest. "We can't lose yo

ll, a formal introduction to society, "t

em. She had turned

lized. It was always "next year,

her father' s cruelty, shattered that last, fragile i